Summary:
Great Bend, Kansas, has seven schools: five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving students across elementary, middle and high school grades. In 2025–26, the seven-school average was below the state in all three subjects: about 40% in English language arts (ELA), 36% in math and 37% in science, compared with state results of 46%, 41% and 38%. The clearest overall finding is that just two schools, both elementary, exceeded state proficiency in all three subjects.
Jefferson Elementary led the area in ELA, math and science, with about 63%, 66% and 58% proficient—17, 25 and 20 percentage points above state results. Lincoln Elementary also beat the state in all three subjects, at about 51% in ELA, 44% in math and 52% in science. Results were uneven elsewhere: Eisenhower Elementary had the lowest ELA result, about 30%; Great Bend High School had the lowest math result, about 24%; and Park Elementary had the lowest science result, also about 24%. The gap between the highest- and lowest-scoring schools was 33 points in ELA, 42 in math and 34 in science.
Recent changes differ by subject and school: the unweighted area averages rose about 1 point in ELA and 2 points in math from the prior year, but state results also increased, leaving the area behind; the five elementary schools’ science average rose 5 points and moved from below the state result to above it. SchoolDigger ranks Jefferson at the 84th percentile and Lincoln at the 54th, while Great Bend Middle School is at the 21st and Great Bend High at the 27th. Attendance is another point of contrast: chronic absenteeism is about 10% at Lincoln and 12% at Jefferson, versus 18% statewide, and 34% at Great Bend High. Elementary student–teacher ratios range from 12.5 at Riley Elementary to 15.1 at Lincoln, so ratio alone does not distinguish the strongest results.
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