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Shawnee Mission Pub School


At a glance
43rdof 268 Kansas districts▲ 2
Better than 83% of Kansas districts
8200 W. 71st Street
Shawnee Mission, KS 66204-1798
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Statewide performance 2018–2026
2026: better than 84% of districts
45
Schools
26,330
Students
16
5-star schools
Top rankedWestwood View Elementary1st of 657 Kansas elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Tomahawk Elementary up 134 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Tomahawk Elementary 11.8 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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2★
1 school without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

The Shawnee Mission Pub School district includes 45 schools—34 elementary, five middle and six high schools—serving students from elementary through high school; 44 schools have 2025–26 test-score results. Across those 44 schools, average proficiency was 60% in English language arts (ELA), 57% in math and 55% in science, about 15, 16 and 16 percentage points above the state figures, respectively. But results vary widely from school to school: the highest-to-lowest gaps are 68 points in ELA, 66 in math and 72 in science. The key takeaway is that strong district averages do not reflect every school’s results.

Westwood View Elementary leads in ELA and math, with 94% and 91% proficient; those results are 8 and 10 points above the next-highest school, Highlands Elementary. Highlands leads in science at 90%, 5 points above the next school. SchoolDigger ranked Westwood View No. 1 among Kansas elementary schools in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, and ranked Indian Hills Middle No. 1 among Kansas middle schools in 2025–26; Indian Hills also led the district’s middle schools in all three subjects. Among traditional high schools, Shawnee Mission East High leads with 67% ELA, 64% math and 48% science—about 13 points ahead of the next-highest high school in each subject. At the other end, Shawanoe Elementary has the lowest results in all three subjects: 25% ELA, 25% math and 18% science. It is also 21 points below the state in ELA, 16 below in math and 20 below in science.

Scores improved on average from 2024–25 to 2025–26: across schools with results in both years, ELA rose about 2 points and math 4 points; science rose 3 points among the 40 schools with results in both years. Individual trends differ: Shawnee Mission West High gained 12 points in ELA and 11 in math, while SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 28th to 65th over three years. Context figures do not point to a simple explanation for results: Indian Woods Middle, with a 35% free/reduced-lunch rate, scored above state figures in all three subjects, while Shawanoe’s rate was 86%. All-grades comparisons can reflect different tested grade spans, so comparing schools at the same level is more useful where possible.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kansas State Department of Education.

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