Summary:
Fredonia has two listed elementary schools serving 334 students: Lincoln Elementary serves grades 1–6, and Fredonia Early Learning Center serves pre-K–K. Only Lincoln has reported KAP results, so the clearest achievement finding is that sixth grade is the exception: it scored above Kansas in both tested subjects, while grades 3–5 were below the state in both.
Lincoln Elementary stands out most positively in science: its 2025–26 result was about 42%, compared with 38% statewide, while its ELA and math results were about 35% and 34%, respectively, versus 46% and 41% statewide. Within Lincoln, sixth-grade ELA was 51% versus 42% statewide, and sixth-grade math was 51% versus 41%; grades 3–5 were below the state in both subjects. For attendance, the Early Learning Center had the higher chronic-absenteeism rate, about 22%, compared with Lincoln’s 19% and the state’s 18%. The center is the most concerning of the two on this measure, but it has no supplied test results for a school-to-school achievement comparison.
Lincoln’s state-relative results weakened from 2024–25 to 2025–26: its ELA proficiency fell about 7 percentage points as Kansas’s rose about 1 point, widening Lincoln’s gap from 3 points below the state to 11 points below. Math was nearly unchanged at about 34%, while the state rose from about 39% to 41%; Lincoln’s deficit grew from 5 to 7 points. Science fell about 8 points, narrowing its lead over Kansas from 9 points to 3. SchoolDigger’s Lincoln ranking also declined, from 295 of 653 schools and the 55th percentile in 2023–24 to 484 of 657 and the 26th percentile in 2025–26; its rating fell from 3 stars to 1. The schools differ in context too: Lincoln’s student-teacher ratio was 11.1 versus 15.9 at the center, and their free/reduced-lunch rates were about 51% and 54%, respectively; these figures describe the schools but do not explain achievement.
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