Summary:
Kismet-Plains has one listed high school, Southwestern Heights Junior/Senior High, serving grades 6–12 and enrolling 310 students. With no other local high school to compare, the clearest benchmark is Kansas: in 2025–26, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 30% in English language arts (ELA), 25% in math and 28% in science, compared with 46%, 41% and 38% statewide. The most important finding is that the school remains below Kansas in all three subjects, by 16 points in ELA, 16 in math and 10 in science.
Eighth grade is the school’s standout: results were above Kansas in all three reported subjects, at 43% versus 42% in ELA, 43% versus 40% in math, and 40% versus 39% in science. The ELA difference is slight—less than 1 point—while the math and science advantages are 3 and 1 points. Other reported grade-and-subject results were below the state; the largest shortfall was sixth-grade math, 18% versus 41%, or 23 points. Because this is the area’s only listed high school, it is both the local leader and the trailer by default, rather than one school standing out against another.
Overall results improved from 2024–25: the school’s equal-weighted average across the three subjects rose from 25% to 28%, and its gap with Kansas narrowed from 17 to 14 points. Math and science drove that progress: their gaps narrowed by 3 and 6 points, while ELA’s widened by 0.4 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 305th of 340, in the 10th percentile, with 1 star; its percentile was 17th the year before. Other reported measures are more favorable than the test-score picture: graduation was 85% versus 90% statewide, chronic absenteeism 13% versus 18%, and the dropout rate 0.7% versus 1.2%. The student–teacher ratio was 10.9, and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 74%; these are context, not explanations for results.
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