Summary:
Marion-Florence has one listed high school, Marion High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 159 students. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was above Kansas in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and nearly level in science; across the three subjects, its average was 47%, compared with 42% statewide. The clearest strength is mathematics, where the school was 12 percentage points above Kansas.
There is no second local high school to rank above or below it, so the most useful comparisons are with Kansas and the Marion-Florence district. The school’s strongest result was mathematics: 53% proficient, versus 41% statewide and 49% districtwide. ELA was also above the state, at 50% versus 46%, but 6 points below the district’s 56%. Science was close to the state (38% at both, rounded) but 12 points below the district’s 50%. SchoolDigger gives the district four stars and ranks it 34th of 268 districts, in the 87th percentile.
The latest results mark a sharp one-year turnaround in ELA and mathematics. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Marion High rose 12 points in ELA, from 38% to 50%, and 17 points in mathematics, from 36% to 53%; Kansas improved by 1 point in ELA and 2 in mathematics over the same period. SchoolDigger’s school ranking also improved, moving from 155th of 332 schools in 2024–2025 to 53rd of 340 in 2025–2026. Other measures offer a mixed but useful picture: chronic absenteeism was 9% versus 18% statewide, and the dropout rate was 0.6% versus 1.2%; the graduation rate was 88%, 2 points below the state. The school had a student-teacher ratio of 10 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 38% in 2024–2025.
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