Summary:
The city of Buffalo, Kansas has only one public school serving grades 6-12, Altoona-Midway Middle/High School. This small school, with an enrollment of just 81 students, faces significant challenges, ranking in the bottom half of Kansas high schools and underperforming the state average on academic measures.
Altoona-Midway Middle/High School has a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger and has consistently ranked in the bottom third of Kansas high schools over the past few years. The school's test scores in English Language Arts and Mathematics are well below the state averages, with only 21.56% of students proficient in ELA and just 10% proficient in Math across all grades. However, the school's science proficiency rates are closer to the state average, suggesting this may be a relative strength. The school also faces high rates of poverty, with 65.43% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, and chronic absenteeism, at 19.5%.
Despite these challenges, Altoona-Midway Middle/High School maintains a relatively high four-year graduation rate of 89.5% and a low dropout rate of 1.3%, which are positive indicators. The school's small size, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.3 to 1, may provide some advantages in terms of personalized attention, though it also presents resource challenges. Overall, the data suggests that Altoona-Midway Middle/High School is an underperforming school facing significant socioeconomic and academic hurdles, but with some strengths in graduation and attendance rates.
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