Summary:
La Crosse Elementary is the only elementary school listed in LaCrosse, serving students in prekindergarten through sixth grade and enrolling 125 students. Its clearest current strength is English language arts (ELA): 61% of students were proficient in 2025–26, compared with 46% statewide, a 15-point advantage.
There is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison because the area has just one school; La Crosse Elementary is both the top and bottom of the group by default. Within the school, ELA proficiency exceeded state results in every tested grade: for example, sixth grade was 62% compared with 42% statewide, a 19-point advantage. Math was more uneven: the all-grades result was 46%, 5 points above Kansas, but fifth-grade math was a clear concern, at 30% compared with 45% statewide, a 15-point shortfall. Third-, fourth- and sixth-grade math results were above the state’s.
Recent results show different directions by subject: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose 8 points, while math fell 3 points and science fell 43 points, from 83% to 41%. Kansas science proficiency fell 3 points, so the school’s advantage narrowed from 42 points to 3. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking rose from the 53rd percentile in 2023–24 to the 71st in 2024–25, then eased to the 67th in 2025–26. Attendance is another favorable comparison: chronic absenteeism was 6%, versus 18% statewide and 10% districtwide in LaCrosse. The school reported a 9.9 student-teacher ratio and a 45% free/reduced-lunch rate; these figures describe its context, not the cause of its results.
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