Summary:
Cherryvale, Kansas, has two schools in the supplied data: Lincoln Central Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 6, and Cherryvale Senior / Middle School, serving grades 7–12. Because they serve different grade spans, their all-grades results reflect different grade mixes. In 2025–26, the elementary school led the secondary school in all three subjects, while the secondary school fell below Kansas results in every subject; the sharpest contrast was in science.
Lincoln Central Elementary stands out overall: its proficiency was 48% in ELA, 40% in math, and 57% in science, compared with 34%, 30%, and 30% at Cherryvale Senior / Middle School. The schools’ gaps were 14 points in ELA, 10 in math, and 27 in science. Lincoln Central was above the state in ELA by 2 points and science by 18, though 1 point below in math; the secondary school was below the state by 12 points in ELA, 11 in math, and 8 in science. Grade results vary: Lincoln Central third-grade ELA reached 74%, 22 points above the state, while its fifth- and sixth-grade math results were each below their state comparisons. At the secondary school, eighth-grade math was 19 points below the state, but eighth-grade science was 6 points above it.
Recent changes were mixed, with the largest drop at the secondary school: its science result fell 18 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while Lincoln Central’s science result rose 5 points. Secondary-school ELA also fell 6 points, whereas its math rose 3; at Lincoln Central, ELA fell 1 point and math fell 2. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings were at the 47th percentile for Lincoln Central and the 22nd for the secondary school, both below their prior-year percentiles of 50 and 28. Enrollment is similar, at 268 and 277 students, as are student-teacher ratios (11.4:1 and 11:1) and free/reduced-lunch rates (about 65% and 66%). These figures describe the schools but do not explain their differences.
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