Summary:
Halstead, Kansas, has two listed schools serving grades 4–12: Halstead Middle School (grades 4–8; 346 students) and Halstead High (grades 8–12; 240 students), with 586 students combined. Both belong to the Halstead district, which SchoolDigger ranks 64th of 268 Kansas districts, at the 76th percentile with four stars. The most important overall finding is that the middle school leads in all three subjects, while the high school’s latest ELA result is the clearest concern.
Halstead Middle School stands out academically: its 2025–26 proficiency was 48% in ELA, 48% in math and 53% in science, exceeding the state in each subject. It led Halstead High by 10 points in ELA, 6 in math and 12 in science. The high school was above the state in math and science, but its 38% ELA rate was 8 points below the state. Its longer-term outcomes are stronger: graduation was 97%, 7 points above the state, while chronic absenteeism was 22%, compared with 16% at the middle school and 18% statewide.
Recent results moved in different directions: middle-school ELA rose 1 point and math 3 points, while high-school ELA fell 9 points, from 46% to 38%, and math fell 2 points. SchoolDigger’s school rankings are three stars for both schools; their latest percentiles are 68 for the middle school and 69 for the high school. The middle school’s percentile improved from 58 to 61 to 68 over three years, while the high school moved from 64 to 77 to 69. The middle school has a higher student–teacher ratio (13.5 versus 10.7) and free/reduced-lunch rate (45% versus 39%); these are context, not explanations for achievement. Because the schools serve different grades and have different ranking pools, their all-grades results and rank positions are not direct like-for-like comparisons.
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