Best Public Schools in Quinter, KS

Quinter, Kansas, has two schools serving 309 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Quinter Elementary (PK–6) and Quinter Junior-Senior High (grades 7–12), in Quinter Public Schools. Their 2025–26 results show different subject strengths: elementary leads in English language arts (ELA), while the junior-senior high leads in math and science. Averaged equally across the two schools, proficiency was 46% in ELA, about even with Kansas, 37% in math, 4 percentage points below the state, and 44% in science, 6 points above. The most important area-wide finding is that science is the clearest relative strength, while math is the clearest shortfall.

Quinter Elementary stands out in all-grades ELA, with 51% proficient, 5 points above Kansas and 11 points above the junior-senior high’s 40%. The high school leads in math at 41%—about even with the state—compared with 33% at elementary; it also leads in science, 47% to 42%, and both schools are above the state rate. Grade-level results show especially sharp highs and lows: high-school grade 7 math reached 59%, 21 points above the state, while grade 10 ELA was 24%, 17 points below. At elementary, grade 5 math was 47%, 2 points above the state, but grade 6 math was 22%, 20 points below. The schools have no overlapping tested grades, so grade-level results are not directly comparable between them.

Year-to-year changes differ by school and subject. At Quinter Elementary, math rose 9 percentage points and science fell 14; at the junior-senior high, science rose 12 points while ELA fell 6 and math fell 2. SchoolDigger gives both schools two stars; its latest percentile ranks are 41 for elementary and 42 for the high school, down from 72 for the high school the year before. The elementary school has 176 students, a 14.2 student-teacher ratio and a 40% free/reduced-lunch rate; the high school has 133 students, an 8.7 ratio and a 35% rate. These figures offer context, but the schools’ different grade spans and subject results do not point to a single simple pattern.