Best Public Schools in Beloit, KS

Beloit has two listed schools serving PK–7 and grades 6–12: Beloit Elementary enrolls 524 students, and Beloit Junior-Senior High enrolls 336. The clearest overall good news is that both schools’ 2025–26 all-grades results were above state results in ELA, math and science—a change from the previous year, when the schools’ average results were below the state in all three subjects.

Beloit Elementary leads the two schools in all three subjects: it scored 54% in ELA, 51% in math and 52% in science, compared with 48%, 46% and 43% at Junior-Senior High. Those leads are 6, 5 and 9 percentage points, respectively. Both schools exceeded state results, which were 46% in ELA, 41% in math and 38% in science. However, SchoolDigger’s latest statewide rankings favor Junior-Senior High: it ranks 74th of 340 schools, at the 78th percentile with 4 stars; Elementary ranks 217th of 657, at the 67th percentile with 3 stars.

Results improved substantially from 2024–25, and the average school-versus-state advantage grew by 7 points in ELA, 8 in math and 14 in science. Science shows the strongest relative turnaround, though the schools’ science scores also differ most. Grade-level results offer useful exceptions: Elementary grade 5 math was 2 points below the state, while Junior-Senior High grade 7 ELA was 8 points below; its grade 10 ELA was 21 points above. Elementary also has a lower student-teacher ratio (13.6 versus 10.6 at Junior-Senior High) and lower chronic absenteeism (8% versus 14%). Free/reduced-lunch enrollment is 44% at Elementary and 46% at Junior-Senior High; these figures describe the schools, not why results differ. The schools serve different grade spans, so their all-grades scores are not a same-grade comparison.