Elkhart

Elkhart’s five schools include an elementary school, a middle school, two high schools and an alternative learning center; Kansas Connections Academy serves students from kindergarten through grade 12. Four schools have 2025–26 proficiency results, while Point Rock Alternative Learning Center has no test scores supplied. Because schools serve different grades, treat schoolwide comparisons as broad guides. The clearest area-wide concern is that all three tested-subject averages fall below Kansas averages, with the largest shortfall in math: 27% versus 41%, a 14-point gap.

Elkhart Elementary leads the tested schools in ELA and math, scoring 44% and 36%; Kansas Connections Academy leads in science at 32%. The leaders are still below state results: elementary is 2 points below the state in ELA and 5 points below in math, while the Academy is 6 points below in science. At the other end, Elkhart High has the lowest ELA and science results, at 33% and 17%; the Academy has the lowest math result, at 20%. Grade-level figures add an important exception: Elkhart Middle School scored 52% in 7th-grade ELA, 8 points above the state.

Recent results are mixed: elementary math rose 9 points, and high-school ELA rose 14 points, while middle-school ELA and science each fell about 12 points. SchoolDigger rankings also show differing trajectories: the high school rose from the 8th to the 21st percentile over three years, while the middle school fell from the 49th to the 26th percentile in the latest year. Context figures do not point to a simple performance pattern: the elementary school’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 77%, the highest among the conventional schools with reported rates, yet it led in ELA and math; its student–teacher ratio was 13.1, compared with 10.0 at the middle school. The high school’s 100% graduation rate is a separate bright spot, alongside its lower proficiency results.