Summary:
Prairie Hills has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Sabetha High School and Axtell High, in the Prairie Hills area. Both schools were above state proficiency rates in 2025–26 for English language arts (ELA) and math. The clearest shared-area strength is math, especially at Axtell: its 90% proficiency rate was 49 percentage points above the state’s 41%.
Axtell High leads the latest ELA and math results, while Sabetha High School is lower in both subjects but still above the state. Axtell’s ELA rate was 60%, compared with Sabetha’s 52%, an 8-point gap; in math, Axtell’s 90% compared with Sabetha’s 56%, a 34-point gap. SchoolDigger ranks Axtell 6th of 340 Kansas high schools and Sabetha 31st. Sabetha’s reported science proficiency was 52%, 14 points above the state rate; Axtell’s science result is not supplied.
Recent results rose sharply at Axtell, while Sabetha’s changes were smaller: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Axtell gained 27 points in ELA and 40 in math, while Sabetha’s ELA dipped 1 point and math rose 3. SchoolDigger’s rankings reflect a bumpier recent history for Axtell (5th, then 121st, then 6th) than for Sabetha (38th, 37th, then 31st). Axtell is also smaller, with 49 students and an 8.8 student–teacher ratio, compared with Sabetha’s 217 students and 9.3 ratio; their free/reduced-lunch rates were 24% and 30%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism was 10% at Axtell and 16% at Sabetha, both below the state’s 18%. Axtell’s science result and a same-year graduation rate for both schools are unavailable for comparison.
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