Summary:
Peabody has two schools: Peabody-Burns Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 5, and Peabody-Burns Junior/Senior High School serves grades 6–12; they enroll 104 and 102 students, respectively. In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades results were below Kansas in ELA, math, and science: the two-school averages were 33%, 27%, and 13%, compared with state results of 46%, 41%, and 38%. ELA was closest to the state, while science was farthest behind—the most important area-wide concern.
Neither school leads in every subject: the elementary school had the higher all-grades math result, 29% versus 25%, while the high school led in ELA, 34% versus 32%, and science, 17% versus 9%. Both schools were below the state in each subject; the elementary school was closer in ELA and math, while the high school was closer in science. Grade-level results show how much performance can vary: elementary grade 4 ELA was 43%, 7 points below the state, while grade 5 ELA was 0%, 51 points below; high school grade 10 math was 33%, 3 points below the state, compared with 8% in grade 7, 30 points below. Chronic absenteeism was also notably different: 13% at the elementary school and 31% at the high school, against 18% statewide. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not a same-grade comparison.
Recent test-score trends favor the high school, while elementary science is a notable exception: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, high school results rose 9 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 4 in science; elementary results fell 1 point in ELA, 6 in math, and 31 in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for the high school rose from 3 to 23 over the three listed years, while the elementary school’s percentile went from 11 to 14 after reaching 26 in 2024–25. The high school also reported a lower student-teacher ratio, 6.9 versus 9.2, and a lower free/reduced-lunch rate, 51% versus 61%; these are differences between the schools, not explanations for their test results.
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