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Sylvan Grove

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At a glance

146^thof 268 Kansas districts▲ 50

Better than 45% of Kansas districts

Elementary 1 High 1Grades PK, KG-12

504 W. 4th.
Sylvan Grove, KS 67481·(785) 526-7175·All Kansas district rankings →

Statewide performance 2018–2026

2026: better than 45.5% of districts

Schools

269

Students

Top rankedSylvan-Lucas Unified Junior Senior82^nd of 340 Kansas high schools

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Biggest riser

Sylvan-Lucas Unified Junior Senior up 144 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

Sylvan Grove has two schools serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Lucas/Sylvan Elementary Unified serves prekindergarten–grade 6, and Sylvan-Lucas Unified Junior Senior serves grades 7–12. The elementary school has the higher 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency in ELA, math, and science, though neither school is ahead of the state in every subject. The clearest shared concern is math: both schools were below the state result, by 2 points at the elementary school and 8 points at the junior-senior school.

Lucas/Sylvan Elementary stands out for its current all-grades results, leading the junior-senior school by 5 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 18 in science. Its results were 52% in ELA and 48% in science, both above the state’s 46% and 38%; math was 39%, below the state’s 41%. Sylvan-Lucas Junior Senior had 47% in ELA, slightly above the state, but was below state results in math and science, at 33% and 31%. Its grade-level results vary: 10th-grade ELA was 61% compared with 41% statewide, while 8th-grade ELA was 20% compared with 42%. The schools serve different grades, so their all-grades results are not a grade-matched comparison.

Recent changes show stronger ELA results at both schools, while math and science moved in different directions. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency rose by 10 points at the elementary school and 7 points at the junior-senior school. Junior-senior math rose by 16 points, while elementary math fell by 6; science fell by 10 points at the elementary school and rose by 3 at the junior-senior school. SchoolDigger ranked the junior-senior school in the 76th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 32nd percentile the previous year. Its 2023–2024 graduation rate was 96%, compared with 90% statewide. Attendance is a less favorable note there: chronic absenteeism was 19%, versus 18% statewide, while the elementary school’s rate was 7%. Enrollment was 125 at the elementary school and 144 at the junior-senior school, with student-teacher ratios of 9.6 and 10.4, respectively.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				KAP English Language Arts (2026)								KAP Mathematics (2026)								KAP Science (2026)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	KAP English Language Arts 3rd Grade	KAP English Language Arts 4th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 5th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 6th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 7th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 8th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 10th Grade	KAP English Language Arts All Grades	KAP Mathematics 3rd Grade	KAP Mathematics 4th Grade	KAP Mathematics 5th Grade	KAP Mathematics 6th Grade	KAP Mathematics 7th Grade	KAP Mathematics 8th Grade	KAP Mathematics 10th Grade	KAP Mathematics All Grades	KAP Science 5th Grade	KAP Science 8th Grade	KAP Science 11th Grade	KAP Science All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Sylvan-Lucas Unified Junior Senior	Public	7-12	504 West 4th	Sylvan Grove	67481	Lincoln County	Sylvan Grove	No	No	No	No	(785) 526-7175	144	14	10.4	45.1%	129 (89.6%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (4.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (5.6%)	69.7	82^nd of 340 public high schools	75.9%		35.2	226^th of 332 public high schools	31.9%	144					47.8	20.0	60.7	47.0					21.7	26.7	46.4	33.3		33.3	28.6	30.6	$14,562	$1,884	$12,678
Lucas/Sylvan Elementary Unified	Public	PK, KG-6	130 N Greeley	Lucas	67648	Russell County	Sylvan Grove	No	No	No	Yes	(785) 525-6244	125	13	9.6	38.4%	117 (93.6%)	1 (0.8%)	4 (3.2%)	1 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (1.6%)	49.3	343^rd of 657 public elementary schools	47.8%		49.2	340^th of 656 public elementary schools	48.2%	3	64.7	33.3	62.1	43.8				51.8	47.1	28.6	37.9	43.8				38.5	48.3			48.3	$17,713	$2,035	$15,678

Districts nearby

District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Lincoln	13.66 mi	2	35^th
Central Plains	13.87 mi	4	98^th
Ellsworth	21.36 mi	3
Waconda	22.66 mi	6
Russell County	25.69 mi	3	187^th

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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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