Best Public Schools in Kingman, KS

Kingman, Kansas, has four schools serving 631 students: an elementary school, a middle school and two high schools, including a virtual school. Among the three schools reporting test results, Kingman Middle School has the strongest reported science results, while Kingman High has stronger math than ELA or science. The clearest takeaway is that performance varies considerably by subject and grade, rather than pointing to one uniformly strongest school.

Kingman Middle School stands out most in science: 65% are proficient, 27 percentage points above the state’s 38%, and 36 points above Kingman High’s 29%. Middle’s ELA result is 46%, essentially level with the state. Kingman High’s results are split: math is 46%, 5 points above the state, while ELA is 28%, 18 points below, and science is 29%, 9 points below. Kingman Elementary School is also mixed: science is 48%, 10 points above the state, while math is 32%, 9 points below. Grade-level results add important detail: Elementary math is 19 points below the state in grade 4 and 15 points below in grade 5; at Middle, grade 7 math is 8 points below, while grade 8 math is 5 points above.

Recent trends differ by subject. Across the three score-reporting schools, the average ELA result went from 2 points below the state in 2024–25 to 6 points below in 2025–26; math remained below the state, with the gap widening from 2 to 3 points. Science strengthened among Elementary and Middle: their average advantage over the state grew from 8 to 19 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose for Middle from 21st in 2023–24 to 69th in 2025–26, while High’s fell from 71st to 45th; these are relative rankings, not test-score changes. Middle’s student-teacher ratio is 10.3, compared with 13.1 at Elementary and 11 at High; reported free/reduced-lunch rates are 57%, 61% and 44%, respectively. The virtual school has no test scores to compare, but reports 0% chronic absenteeism, a 14% dropout rate and an 82% graduation rate, versus statewide rates of 18%, 1% and 90%. These measures cover different years and outcomes, and should be read as context rather than explanations for achievement results.