Best Public Schools in Linn, KS

Linn, Kansas, has two schools in the Barnes district: Linn Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolls 161 students, while Linn High serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 66. In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades ELA and math results were above state levels, but science showed the sharpest contrast: Elementary had 62% proficiency and High 14%, compared with 38% statewide—a 48-point gap between the schools.

Linn Elementary stands out in science, scoring 24 points above the state; Linn High was 24 points below it. High leads in all-grades ELA, with 67% versus Elementary’s 56%, and in math, with 56% versus 52%; both schools exceeded state results of 46% in ELA and 41% in math. Elementary’s grade results vary: its 3rd-grade ELA and math were 13 and 12 points below state levels, while its 8th-grade results were 35 points above state in ELA and 30 points above in math. Attendance is another major difference: chronic absenteeism was 40% at High versus 4% at Elementary and 18% statewide. High’s 2024–25 dropout rate was 3%, compared with 1% statewide.

Recent results moved in opposite directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Elementary fell 16 points in ELA, 17 in math, and 17 in science, while High rose 44 points in ELA and 9 in math; no prior-year science result is supplied for High. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Elementary fell from 100 in 2023–24 to 41 in 2025–26, while High’s rose from 49 to 71. High has a lower student-teacher ratio, 7.6 versus 13.1, and the schools’ reported free/reduced-lunch rates were similar, at about one-third. These figures describe different grade spans, and High’s smaller enrollment means its percentages may reflect fewer students.