Jayhawk

Jayhawk has two schools: Jayhawk Elementary, serving prekindergarten through sixth grade, and Jayhawk-Linn High, serving grades seven through twelve. Their equal-weight average proficiency is 43% in ELA and 39% in math, compared with 46% and 41% statewide. The most important area-wide finding is that science is the clearest weakness: the two-school average is 27%, 11 points below the state’s 38%.

Jayhawk Elementary leads the all-grades summaries in all three subjects, exceeding Jayhawk-Linn High by 17 points in ELA, 10 in math, and 6 in science. Elementary is also above state results in all-grades ELA by 6 points and math by 3, though its science result is 8 points below. High is below the state in all three: by 12 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 14 in science. At grade level, Elementary’s sixth-grade ELA and math are 18 and 19 points above state results; High’s tenth-grade math is 3 points above. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are school-summary comparisons, not grade-for-grade comparisons.

Recent trends are mixed: the two-school average rose 4 points in ELA and 2 in math from the prior year, but fell 14 points in science while the state science result fell 3. The schools’ paths differ: Elementary declined 2 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 21 in science; High gained 10 in ELA and 6 in math, while falling 8 in science. SchoolDigger ranks Elementary at the 47th percentile and High at the 35th; High rose 18 percentile points from the prior year, while Elementary fell from the 62nd to the 47th percentile. Attendance is a shared concern: chronic absenteeism is 30% at Elementary and 29% at High, versus 18% statewide.