Summary:
Great Bend has one middle school, Great Bend Middle School, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 438 students. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates were 33% in English language arts (ELA), 29% in mathematics, and 25% in science. The most important finding is that the school was below Kansas in all three subjects, by about 12–13 percentage points.
There is no meaningful local top or bottom school because Great Bend Middle School is the only school in the list. Compared with the state, its ELA result was 33% versus 46%, mathematics was 29% versus 41%, and science was 25% versus 38%; it was also below the Great Bend district by about 5 points in each subject. Grade-level results reveal a particular weakness in grade 7 mathematics: 23% were proficient, compared with 34% in grade 8; the state gaps were 14 points and 6 points, respectively. ELA proficiency was about 33% in both grades, with gaps of 11 points in grade 7 and 10 in grade 8.
Recent results were mixed, but the school’s average across the three subjects fell by about 1 point from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the state average was essentially unchanged; the average gap widened by about 1 point. ELA edged up, while math and science declined, although science’s gap with the state narrowed. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also fell over three years, from 238th of 362 schools (34th percentile) to 290th of 368 (21st percentile). One positive contrast is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 14%, compared with 18% statewide and 21% districtwide. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 10.5, and 66% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch; these are useful context, not explanations for academic results. With only one local school in the data, school-to-school comparisons are not possible.
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