Basehor-Linwood Virtual School

Basehor-Linwood Virtual School is a K–12 alternative school in Basehor, Kansas, with 170 students. Its 2025–2026 results vary notably by subject and grade: science is a relative strength, while math is a concern. The most important academic finding is the especially weak seventh-grade performance: proficiency was 10% in ELA and 20% in math, compared with 64% and 43%, respectively, in eighth grade.

Science is the school’s strongest subject against state results: 44% of students were proficient, 6 points above Kansas and 7 points below the Basehor-Linwood district. That science result was also 5 points higher than the strongest of the two nearby virtual schools with all-grade scores: Lawrence Virtual School and Kansas Heartland Virtual Academy. Math was weaker: 27% proficiency was 14 points below the state and 30 below the district, though 4 points above the average of those two nearby schools. ELA was 45%, near the state’s 46% but 16 points below the district and 3 below the nearby-school average. Eighth-grade ELA and science were comparatively strong, at 64% and 50%.

Results shifted in different directions over the two years shown: ELA fell 7 points and math fell 2, while science rose 3 and moved from just below the state to 6 points above it. The reported graduation rate declined from 94% in 2021–2022 to 84% in 2023–2024; the dropout rate then rose from 2% to 8% in 2024–2025. In contrast, reported chronic absenteeism was 0% in each of four years. SchoolDigger rates the district—not this individual school—at rank 24 of 268, the 91st percentile, with 5 stars. The school’s reported student-teacher ratio is 27.8, compared with 21.7 at Lawrence Virtual and 4.4 at Bridges/Wyandot Academy; its free/reduced-lunch rate is 2%. Graduation and dropout figures refer to different school years and are not interchangeable, and grade-level test results may reflect small groups.