Summary:
Paxico has one school, Wabaunsee Junior High, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 95 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was about 46% in English language arts (ELA), 43% in math and 60% in science. It was slightly above Kansas in ELA and math and substantially above the state in science. The clearest concern within the school is grade 7: its ELA and math results were below Kansas rates, while grades 6 and 8 were above them.
There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom school comparison because this list contains only one school. Across subjects, science was the school’s strongest result and math its weakest: 60% in science compared with 43% in math, a 17-point difference. Science was also 22 points above Kansas and 7 points above the Wabaunsee district. ELA was just above the state (46.3% versus 45.9%), while math was 2 points higher. Grade 7 was below Kansas by 9 points in both ELA (35% versus 44%) and math (29% versus 38%); grades 6 and 8 were above state results in both subjects.
Results moved in different directions over time: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell 10 percentage points, from 56% to 46%, and math fell 16 points, from 59% to 43%, while science rose 18 points, from 42% to 60%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also weakened after two relatively stable years: the school went from 50th of 363 schools (86th percentile) in 2024–2025 to 120th of 368 (67th percentile) in 2025–2026, a drop of 19 percentile points. Chronic absenteeism was 57%, compared with 28% districtwide and 18% statewide. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 11.9, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 40%; these are useful context, not explanations for its results.
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