Summary:
Cunningham, Kansas, has one listed high school, Cunningham High, serving grades 6–12 and enrolling 117 students, so there are no local school-to-school comparisons. In 2025–26, its average proficiency across ELA, math, and science was 49%, compared with 42% statewide; its clearest strength was science, 17 percentage points above Kansas.
Cunningham High is both the area’s top and bottom school by default, so neither label signals a meaningful local ranking. Compared with Kansas, the school was ahead in science (55% versus 38%) and math (48% versus 41%), while ELA was essentially level with the state (45.7% versus 45.9%, less than 1 point apart). Grade results vary considerably: 10th grade was 21 points above the state in ELA and 30 points above in math, while 7th-grade ELA was 22 points below and 6th-grade math was 15 points below. Reported science results were above the state in both grades shown, by about 20 points in grades 8 and 11.
Overall results improved from the prior year, but science drove the change: the school’s science proficiency rose 17 points, while ELA fell 4 points and math fell 1 point. Its average advantage over the state widened from 4 to 8 points, even as results moved in different directions by subject. SchoolDigger ranked the school 185th of 318 in 2023–24, 8th of 332 in 2024–25, and 15th of 340 in 2025–26—a seven-place drop in the latest year, after a large rise. Other context includes a 9.5:1 student–teacher ratio, 38% free/reduced-lunch eligibility, a 100% graduation rate versus 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism of 8% versus 18% statewide. The figures describe one school and do not show whether its context measures are related to its results.
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