Fort Scott

In Fort Scott, the four schools are two elementary schools, Winfield Scott Elementary (K–2) and Eugene Ware Elementary, plus Fort Scott Middle School and Fort Scott Senior High. The clearest concern in the reported results is the high school: its 2025–26 proficiency was 24% in ELA, 25% in math and 24% in science, compared with state results of 46%, 41% and 38%. Its chronic absenteeism was also high at 35%, versus 18% statewide.

Eugene Ware led the reported all-grades ELA and science results, at 49% and 42%; those results were 3 percentage points above the state in each subject. Fort Scott Middle led in math at 45%, 4 points above the state, and its grade 8 results were especially strong: 52% in ELA and 60% in math, respectively 10 and 20 points above state results for that grade. The high school was below the state in all three subjects, with grade 10 ELA 17 points below and math 11 points below, and grade 11 science 6 points below. Winfield Scott has no supplied test scores; because the schools serve different grades, all-grades school comparisons are descriptive, not like-grade comparisons.

Recent results show a mixed pattern. The three schools with two years of ELA data moved from an average about 1 point below the state in 2024–25 to 7 points below in 2025–26; in math, their position shifted from 1 point above to 4 points below. By contrast, the two schools with comparable science data moved from 9 points below the state to 3 points above. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide rankings also place the middle school highest, 143rd of 368 schools (61st percentile), followed by Eugene Ware at 375th of 657 (43rd percentile) and the high school at 277th of 340 (19th percentile). The high school’s reported lunch rate was 47%, compared with 58% at both the middle school and Eugene Ware; these figures describe the schools and do not explain their results.