Summary:
The Paradise area has one listed high school, Natoma High, serving grades 6–12 and enrolling 58 students, so families have no other listed local high school for comparison. Its results are mixed across subjects, rather than uniformly above or below Kansas. The clearest concern is all-grades science: Natoma’s 25% proficiency rate was 13 percentage points below the state rate.
Natoma is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list by default. Its strongest all-grades result was ELA, with 50% proficient—4 points above Kansas, though 3 points below the Paradise district. Math was 42%, just 1 point above the state but 5 points below the district. Science was 25%, 13 points below Kansas and 18 points below the district. Grade-specific results offer a different view: 10th-grade ELA and math were 5 and 2 points above state rates, while 11th-grade science was nearly even with Kansas.
Recent results show small gains or little change, but Natoma’s leads over Kansas narrowed. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, all-grades ELA stayed around 50% while the state rose by 1 point; Natoma’s lead narrowed from 6 to 4 points. Math rose from 41% to 42%, while the state increased by 2 points, narrowing Natoma’s lead from 2 points to 1. SchoolDigger ranks Natoma at the 61st percentile in 2025–26, up 18 percentile points from 2022–23; the listed rankings do not show a continuous year-by-year trend. Chronic absenteeism was 20%, above the district’s 17% and Kansas’s 18%. The school’s 6.3 student–teacher ratio and 64% free/reduced-lunch rate provide additional context, not an explanation of its results.
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