Best Public Schools in Lebo, KS

Lebo, Kansas, has two schools in the Lebo-Waverly district: Lebo Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, and Lebo High, serving grades 6–12; together they enroll 276 students. The schools’ strongest shared result is ELA: in 2025–26, 62% of Elementary students and 59% of High students were proficient, compared with 46% statewide. Their other subjects tell a less uniform story: Elementary was strong in science but below the state in math, while High was above the state in math but slightly below in science. The clearest area-wide finding is that ELA is the shared strength, while math and science vary substantially by school.

Lebo Elementary stands out in all-grades ELA and science, leading Lebo High by 4 percentage points in ELA (62% versus 59%) and 22 points in science (58% versus 36%). But High leads in math by 11 points (50% versus 39%). Elementary also has the lower chronic-absenteeism rate: 7%, compared with High’s 17% and the state’s 18%. High’s reported 2023–24 graduation rate was 100%, 11 points above the state rate. At grade level, Elementary math varies sharply: proficiency was 34% in grade 3 and 19% in grade 4, both below state results, then 68% in grade 5, 23 points above the state.

Recent results show improvement in some areas, but not across the board. The two-school ELA average rose by 4 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, largely because High’s ELA score increased by 15 points while Elementary’s fell by 6. Elementary also declined in math and science, by 9 and 10 points; High math rose by 13 points, while its science result fell by 3. SchoolDigger ranks Elementary at the 65th percentile with 3 stars and High at the 71st percentile with 4 stars; their rankings have fluctuated over the past three years. Elementary’s student-teacher ratio is 13.6, compared with 9.9 at High, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 43%, compared with 36% at High. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not same-grade comparisons, and SchoolDigger ranks them in separate school-type groups.