Summary
Mound Valley Elementary serves 136 students in prekindergarten through grade 8 in Mound Valley, Kansas, within Labette County, a district ranked 67th of 268 Kansas districts by SchoolDigger (75th percentile, four stars). The school’s results vary sharply by subject and grade: in 2025–26, seventh-grade ELA was 22% and math was 17%, compared with 44% and 38% statewide and 49% and 47% districtwide. The key takeaway is that strong science results coexist with a significant seventh-grade ELA and math concern.
Science is the clearest strength: 63% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide and 48% districtwide, and the result was 7 points above the average for four nearby schools. It was second among the five Labette County schools with reported scores, just behind Edna Elementary at 64%. By contrast, ELA was 47% and math was 43%—just 1 and 2 points above the state, but 6 and 4 points below the district and 10 and 9 points below the nearby-school averages. Grade-level results also vary: eighth-grade math reached 70%, 30 points above the state and 23 above the district, while fourth-grade ELA was 45%, below the state, district, and all four nearby schools with results.
Scores improved overall from 2022–23 to 2025–26: ELA gained 10 points, math 4, and science 9, though progress was uneven. Math fell from 54% in 2024–25 to 43%, while science recovered from 40% in 2023–24 to 63%. SchoolDigger ranks Mound Valley 238th of 657 schools, at the 64th percentile with three stars—around the middle of nearby ranked schools. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 10.9, and 61% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. SchoolDigger’s statewide subgroup ranking is notably higher for students with low socioeconomic status: the school ranked at the 87th percentile for how well it serves this group, compared with the 64th percentile overall, a 23-point difference. With 136 students, grade-level percentages may be sensitive to small numbers of test takers.
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