Summary:
Andover, Kansas, has eight schools: three elementary, two middle, two high schools, and one alternative K–12 school, serving students from elementary grades through high school. In 2025–26, the schools’ average results were above Kansas’s by 12 points in English Language Arts (ELA), 14 in math, and 14 in science. The key takeaway is that strong overall averages do not mean every school is above the state in every subject: all eight exceeded the state in ELA, but only seven did in math and six in science.
Prairie Creek Elementary led all-grades ELA at 65%, while Andover Central Middle School led math at 64% and Sunflower Elementary School led science at 69%. The sharpest low result was Andover eCademy in math: 32%, 9 points below the state and 27 points below the other seven schools’ average. Andover Central High School had the lowest science result at 34.7%, narrowly below eCademy’s 34.9%. Grade-specific results can tell a different story: eCademy’s third-grade ELA was 73%, 21 points above the state, but its fifth-grade ELA was 47%, 4 points below.
Recent results are mixed: the average ELA result slipped by 1 point from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math rose by 2 points, and science fell by 4 points among the six schools with comparable results. SchoolDigger ranks also vary: Andover Middle School was in the 93rd percentile statewide, while Cottonwood Elementary was in the 69th percentile, down 15 percentile points since 2023–24. Within the elementary group, Prairie Creek had the highest ELA and math results and the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate, 29%; Sunflower led science, while Cottonwood had the lowest results in all three subjects and the highest rate, 33%. These patterns are not uniform across school types: among the middle schools, Central Middle led math, while Andover Middle led ELA and science. Traditional-school student-teacher ratios ranged from 12.9 to 16.3, with no consistent pattern across results.
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