Crest

Crest Elementary and Crest High are the two schools in Crest, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12; together they enroll 263 students. Their results differ sharply by subject: in 2025–26, the high school leads in all-grades math, while science proficiency is below the state rate at both schools and especially low at the high school. The most important takeaway is that families will find a clear math strength at the high school, but science is a concern across the area.

Crest High has the stronger all-grades ELA and math results: 41% in ELA and 47% in math, compared with 39% and 28% at Crest Elementary. The math gap is 19 percentage points; the ELA gap is just 2 points. The elementary school leads in science, with 28% proficiency versus 7% at the high school, though both trail Kansas’s 38% rate. A standout within the elementary school is grade 7, where ELA proficiency is 57%—13 points above the state—and math is 57%, 19 points above. SchoolDigger rates the elementary school one star and the high school two stars. The high school’s 2023–24 graduation rate is a bright spot at 100%, 11 points above the state rate. Because the schools serve different grade spans and the high school enrolls 78 students, comparisons need some care.

Recent results show gains alongside setbacks: ELA rose by 9 points at the elementary school and 5 points at the high school, while high-school math gained 11 points; elementary math was essentially flat, and elementary science fell by 11 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings have declined over the longer period, from 45 to 19 for the elementary school and from 69 to 42 for the high school between 2023–24 and 2025–26. Attendance also differs: chronic absenteeism is 8% at the elementary school, below the state’s 18%, but 27% at the high school. The elementary school’s student-teacher ratio is 13.6, compared with 10.8 at the high school; reported free/reduced-lunch rates are 61% and 46%, respectively.