High Schools in Plainville

Plainville has one high school, Plainville High, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 197 students. Because it is the only school in the list, there is no school-to-school comparison; the clearest picture comes from comparing its results with Kansas as a whole. The most important concern is that its 2025–2026 proficiency was below the state in all three reported subjects: 27% in ELA versus 46% statewide, 17% in math versus 41%, and 16% in science versus 38%.

Plainville High’s strongest academic comparison is ELA, where it was 19 points below the state; math had the largest all-grades gap, at 24 points, while science was 22 points behind. The grade-level results show further variation: grade 8 ELA was the closest listed result to the state, at 30% versus 42%, still 13 points lower. The weakest listed comparison was grade 11 science, with 4% proficient versus 30% statewide, a 26-point gap. Completion outcomes are notably stronger: the school’s 2023–2024 graduation rate was 97%, 7 points above the state’s 90%. In contrast, chronic absenteeism was 22% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% statewide.

Results shifted only modestly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 0.1 point, from 27% to 27% after rounding; math rose 2 points, from 16% to 17%; and science rose 0.2 point, from 16% to 16%. The science gap narrowed by 3 points, largely because the state result fell, while the ELA and math gaps widened slightly. SchoolDigger placed the school in the 9th percentile statewide in 2025–2026 and gave it 0 stars; its ranking history was 38th percentile in 2023–2024, 4th in 2024–2025, then 9th. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 11.1, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 41%—useful context, but not evidence of what drives results.