Summary:
Pretty Prairie, Kansas, has one middle school, Pretty Prairie Middle, serving grades 6–8; it enrolls 68 students, and its student–teacher ratio was 13 in 2024–2025. With no other local middle schools in this list, the key finding is that its strongest latest subject is mathematics: 48% proficiency, 7 points above Kansas, while ELA and science are below state rates.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare, but mathematics stands out within Pretty Prairie Middle’s results. The overall math advantage is driven by grades 6 and 7: grade 6 was 65%, 23 points above Kansas, and grade 7 was 45%, 7 points above; grade 8 was 33%, 6 points below. ELA is the clearest area of concern: the all-grades result was 36%, 10 points below Kansas, with grade-level gaps of 7 points in grade 6, 10 in grade 7, and 2 in grade 8. Science was 33%, 5 points below the state.
Results improved in math and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while ELA declined: math rose 16 points to 48%, science rose 11 points to 33%, and ELA fell 4 points to 36%. The school’s simple three-subject average increased from 31% to 39%, narrowing its gap with Kansas from 10 points below to 3 points below; however, the ELA gap widened from 4 to 10 points below. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile improved from 22 to 49, and its rank moved from 282 of 362 to 188 of 368. Chronic absenteeism was 8%, compared with 18% statewide. Free/reduced-lunch eligibility was 47%, a context measure that does not explain the test results.
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