Cimarron-Ensign

The Cimarron-Ensign area has two listed schools: Cimarron Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 312 students, and Cimarron High, serving grades 7–12 with 251 students. The main takeaway is that neither school leads across all subjects: Elementary is ahead in ELA and science, while High is ahead in math.

Elementary stands out most in science: its 2025–26 rate was 40%, 14 percentage points above High’s 27% and 2 points above Kansas’s 38%. It also led ELA by 4 points, with 44% compared with High’s 41%; both were below the state’s 46%. High led in math at 42%, 7 points above Elementary’s 35% and about 1 point above the state’s 41%. The lowest relative results differ by subject: High’s science rate was 11 points below Kansas, while Elementary’s math rate was 6 points below. Grade-level results show further variation: High’s eighth-grade math rate was 58%, 18 points above the state rate, while Elementary’s fourth-grade math rate was 29%, 15 points below its grade-level state rate.

Recent changes were mixed rather than a broad improvement. Elementary’s ELA rate rose by 4 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but its math fell by 2 points and science fell by 11; High’s all-grades rates were nearly flat in each subject. SchoolDigger ranks Elementary at the 31st percentile and High at the 40th percentile for 2025–26; Elementary’s ranking declined from the 39th percentile in 2023–24, while High rose to the 63rd percentile in 2024–25 before falling. Context also differs: Elementary’s student-teacher ratio is 11 and its reported free/reduced-lunch rate is 46%, compared with 9.2 and 41% at High. These figures describe differences between the schools, but do not establish what causes their test results.