Summary:
Zip code 62998 has one middle school, Shawnee Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 in Shawnee CUSD 84; it enrolls 62 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 54%, close to the state’s 56%, while 8th-grade science was 50%, compared with 52% statewide. The biggest concern is math: 18% were proficient, versus 40% statewide, a 22-point shortfall.
Because it is the only school in the list, Shawnee is both the area’s top and bottom school by default; the data cannot establish how it compares with local peers. Its strongest relative result was 8th-grade ELA: 68% proficient compared with 63% statewide, 5 points higher. In contrast, 6th-grade ELA was 50%, versus 59% statewide, 9 points lower—an 18-point difference between Shawnee’s reported 8th- and 6th-grade results. The school’s all-grades math result was its clearest weakness against the state, 22 points below.
Results improved across the two years with comparable scores, especially in science. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Shawnee rose 16 points in all-grades ELA, 6 points in math, and 35 points in 8th-grade science; each subject’s gap with the state narrowed. SchoolDigger’s ranking also rose to the 47th percentile and two stars in 2025–2026, from the 22nd percentile and one star the prior year. Attendance was another favorable comparison: chronic absenteeism was 16%, versus 21% for the district and 24% statewide. As context, in 2024–2025 the student-teacher ratio was 12.4 and 81% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. With just one school and 62 students, the list cannot show differences among area schools, and smaller enrollment can make results more sensitive to year-to-year changes.
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