Wallace County Schools

Wallace County Schools has two schools serving 154 students: Sharon Springs Elementary serves PK–8, and Wallace County High serves grades 9–12; no middle school is listed. The most important finding is that results are uneven: the high school is a standout, while the elementary school’s sharp science decline is the clearest warning sign.

Wallace County High stands out in its available 2024–25 results: proficiency was 80% in both ELA and math, compared with 44% and 39% statewide—about 36 and 41 points higher. Its 10th-grade results were even farther above state levels, by 42 points in ELA and 46 in math. SchoolDigger ranked it 2nd of 332 Kansas high schools, in the 99th percentile. Sharon Springs Elementary had a more mixed 2025–26 profile: ELA was 64%, 18 points above the state, and math was 49%, 8 points above; science was 35%, 3 points below. Its 5th-grade science result was also 18 points below the state. These results do not make a fair direct school-to-school score comparison because the schools serve different grades and their score years differ.

Sharon Springs Elementary improved in ELA and math from 2024–25 to 2025–26—by 6 and 4 points—but science fell by 24 points, turning a 17-point lead over the state into a 3-point deficit. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down from 122nd of 653 schools in 2023–24 to 214th of 657 in 2025–26. By contrast, Wallace County High rose from 47th of 327 in 2022–23 to 2nd of 332 in 2024–25, though its test-score trend cannot be assessed from one year of results. The schools report similar lunch-program rates—about 40%—and nearly identical per-student spending; the high school’s student-teacher ratio is lower, at 7.5 compared with 10.4. These context figures describe the schools but do not explain their results.