High Schools in Wellington

Wellington has one listed high school, Wellington High School, serving grades 9–12 and 463 students. With no other local high schools in this list, there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. The most important finding is that 2025–26 proficiency was below Kansas in all three subjects: 25% in English language arts (ELA), 19% in mathematics, and 24% in science, with gaps of 21, 22, and 14 percentage points, respectively.

Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while mathematics is its weakest: the science gap was 14 points, compared with 21 points in ELA and 22 points in mathematics. In that sense, the sole school is both the area’s top and bottom school, but that does not show how it compares with other high schools. A brighter result is graduation: 95% of students graduated in 2023–24, 5 points above Kansas and 1 point above the Wellington district. SchoolDigger gives the school one star and ranks it 286th of 340 statewide, in the 16th percentile.

Recent ELA and mathematics results moved in the wrong direction relative to Kansas. ELA proficiency fell from 28% to 25%, while the state rose from 44% to 46%; the gap widened by 5 points. Mathematics fell from 23% to 19%, while the state rose from 39% to 41%; its gap widened by 7 points. SchoolDigger’s rank shifted from 259th of 318 in 2023–24 to 266th of 332 in 2024–25 and 286th of 340 in 2025–26, though rankings from different-sized comparison groups are not direct measures of score change. Attendance is mixed: chronic absenteeism was 24%, better than the district’s 34% but above Kansas’s 18%. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 11.8, and 53% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.