Summary:
St John, Kansas, has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: St John Elementary (PK–6, 225 students) and St John High (grades 7–12, 141 students), with no middle school. In 2025–26, Elementary’s all-grades English language arts (ELA) result was 52%, compared with 35% at High; High led in math, 44% to 38%, while both schools scored about 37% in science. The central finding is that neither school leads across subjects: Elementary is ahead in ELA, High in math, and they are virtually tied in science.
Elementary stands out in ELA: it scored 6 points above the state, while High was 11 points below. High leads in math, scoring 3 points above the state, while Elementary was 3 points below; both schools were about 1 point below the state in science. Grade-level results reveal sharper contrasts: High’s seventh-grade math was 29 points above the state, but its tenth-grade ELA was 18 points below. Elementary’s fourth-grade ELA was 13 points above the state, while its sixth-grade ELA was 17 points below. Attendance also differs: chronic absenteeism was 10% at Elementary and 36% at High, compared with 18% statewide.
Results have shifted in different directions by subject. The simple average of the two schools’ science scores rose from 18% in 2024–25 to 37% in 2025–26, while their ELA average fell from 50% to 44%; math rose from 36% to 41%. SchoolDigger gives both schools two stars: Elementary is at the 46th statewide percentile and High at the 49th. Both are below their 2024–25 ranking peaks, though High remains 10 percentile points above its 2023–24 standing and Elementary is unchanged. High’s graduation rate was 95% in 2023–24, above the state’s 90%. Student–teacher ratios were 15.7 at Elementary and 9.5 at High; free/reduced-lunch rates were 40% and 42%, respectively.
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