Summary
Ashland Elementary is a PK–5 school in Ashland, Kansas, serving 83 students in the Ashland district. In 2025–2026, SchoolDigger ranked it at the 53rd percentile statewide, 306th of 657 schools, with 3 stars—close to nearby South Central Elementary School, at the 52nd percentile with 3 stars. The most important concern is science: Ashland’s proficiency was 21%, compared with 38% statewide and 42% in its district.
Math is Ashland’s strongest all-grade subject: 57% of students were proficient, ahead of the state at 41%, the district at 53%, and South Central at 49%. ELA was also above the state and district—50%, versus 46% and 49%—but below South Central’s 60%. Grade-level results show a sharp split: Ashland’s third graders reached 60% in ELA and 63% in math, ahead of South Central’s 36% and 21%; fourth graders scored 46% in ELA and 50% in math, below South Central’s 76% and 67%. Ashland’s science result also fell below the state and district, and no South Central science comparison is available.
Results have moved in different directions over time: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, Ashland’s math proficiency rose 16 points and ELA rose 9 points, while science fell 20 points; state science proficiency rose 7 points over the same period. SchoolDigger’s overall percentile rose from 45 to 53 between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while South Central’s fell from 92 to 52. Ashland’s student–teacher ratio was 8.1, compared with 14.1 at South Central; its free/reduced-lunch rate was 47%, versus 64%. In SchoolDigger’s measure of how well the school serves White students, its subgroup percentile rose from 56 in 2020–2021 to 99 in 2023–2024; for students with low socioeconomic status, it fell from 72 in 2017–2018 to 30 the following year. These subgroup results are from widely spaced years, and the schools serve different grade spans, so all-grade comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
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