High Schools in Wamego

Wamego has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Wamego High, with 504 students, and Wamego High School Virtual School, with 18. Only the larger school has listed test scores, so the data cannot establish a test-score ranking between the two. Its latest results were above Kansas in math and English but below in science, while the virtual school’s reported completion outcomes were much weaker. The most important distinction for families is the main school’s uneven academic results versus the virtual school’s markedly lower reported graduation rate and higher dropout rate.

Wamego High stands out most in math: 51% of students were proficient, 10 points above Kansas; English proficiency was 49%, 3 points above the state. Science was the clearest weakness, at 23%—15 points below Kansas. Grade-matched results show the same contrast: a 15-point math lead in grade 10 and a 7-point science deficit in grade 11. Completion figures set the virtual school apart in the other direction: Wamego High School Virtual School reported a 72% graduation rate, compared with 96% at the main school and 90% statewide. Its 29% dropout rate was 29 points above the main school’s 0% and 28 points above Kansas.

Academic results at Wamego High rebounded sharply from 2024–25 to 2025–26: English proficiency rose 24 points and math rose 23, while the state increased by 1 and 2 points, respectively. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 67th percentile in 2025–26, after the 23rd percentile the prior year and the 66th percentile in 2023–24. Chronic absenteeism was also lower than the state rate at the main school—11% versus 18%—and was reported as 0% at the virtual school, a different pattern from its completion figures. The main school’s student–teacher ratio was 13.1, and 28% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch; these are useful context figures, not explanations for outcomes.