School for Deaf

The School for Deaf district in Kansas has two schools serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: School for Deaf Elementary (PK–6, 56 students) and School for Deaf High (grades 7–12, 62 students). In 2025–26, their simple two-school averages were 12% proficient in ELA and 12% in math, compared with 46% and 41% statewide—a gap of 34 points in ELA and 29 points in math. The most important takeaway is that both schools’ reported all-grades results remain far below state proficiency rates.

School for Deaf High had the group’s highest 2025–26 all-grades results in ELA and math, though the ELA edge over School for Deaf Elementary was small: 12.5% versus 12.2%, a 0.3-point difference. The math gap was much larger: 22% at High versus 2% at Elementary, a 19-point spread. High’s math result was still 19 points below the state’s 41%. Elementary reported 0% proficiency in science, compared with 38% statewide; High has no science result for that year. SchoolDigger ranked High 307th of 340 schools (10th percentile) and Elementary 657th of 657 (0th percentile) in 2025–26; the ranking pools differ. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not perfectly like-for-like comparisons.

ELA and math results rose at both schools from 2024–25 to 2025–26: High gained 5 points in ELA and 10 in math, while Elementary gained 7 and 2 points. The state rose 1 point in ELA and 2 in math, and the average school-to-state gaps narrowed by 4 points in each subject. Elementary science went the opposite way, falling from 7% to 0%. Context measures are similar: student–teacher ratios were 4.7 at Elementary and 4.6 at High, while free/reduced-lunch rates were 23% and 21%, respectively. SchoolDigger’s rank history was uneven: High moved from the 2nd percentile in 2020–21 to the 17th in 2023–24, then the 10th in 2025–26; Elementary went from the 5th percentile in 2021–22 to 0 in both 2024–25 and 2025–26.