Summary:
Cheney has one high school, Cheney High, serving grades 9–12 and 235 students, so families have one local high school rather than several to compare. Its 2025–26 results are above Kansas’s proficiency rates in English language arts (ELA), math, and science, with the largest lead in math. The most important finding is that Cheney High is ahead of the state in all three tested subjects.
There is no school-to-school top-versus-bottom comparison in this one-school list; Cheney High stands out against state results, especially in math. In 2025–26, proficiency was 69% in math, 63% in ELA, and 53% in science, compared with state rates of 41%, 46%, and 38%. Its leads were 28 points in math, 18 in ELA, and 14 in science; across the three subjects, its average was 62%, versus 42% statewide. A notable counterpoint is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 20%, compared with 18% statewide and 11% in the Cheney district.
Recent test-score trends differ by subject: ELA improved relative to the state, while math’s large lead narrowed. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Cheney High’s ELA rate rose by 3 points, and its lead grew by 2 points; its math rate fell by 7 points as the state rate rose by 2, narrowing the school’s lead by 10 points. SchoolDigger ranked it 11th of 340 schools in 2025–26, compared with 7th of 332 the year before; its percentile was 97, down from 98. Other outcomes are favorable against state figures: graduation was 90%, 1 point higher, and dropout rounded to 0%, versus 1% statewide. The school’s 9.6 student–teacher ratio and 21% free/reduced-lunch rate offer context, but the single-school list cannot show how these figures compare with local peers.
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