Summary
Concordia Junior-Senior High serves 524 students in grades 7–12 in Concordia, Kansas, and is the largest of four nearby schools compared, which enroll 51 to 245 students. Its test results show a clear strength in math, but attendance and graduation deserve attention: chronic absenteeism reached 25% in 2025–26, compared with 19% in the Concordia district, 18% statewide and 10% on average at the nearby schools. The 2023–24 graduation rate was 83%, about 10 points below the nearby-school average and 7 points below the state rate. The clearest concern is that absenteeism has risen every year in the available data.
Math is the school’s strongest subject compared with nearby schools, its district and the state. In 2025–26, 42% of students were proficient in math, the highest result among the four schools and about 6 points above the nearby-school average; it was 1 point above the state but 4 points below the district. ELA proficiency was 40%: above the nearby average by 3 points, but below the state by 6 and the district by 7. Science was the weakest comparison: proficiency was 34%, the lowest among the four schools and 3 points below the nearby average, as well as 4 points below the state and 6 below the district.
Results have improved substantially since 2022–23: proficiency rose by 22 points in ELA, 20 in math and 12 in science, though science fell 5 points in the latest year after an earlier rise. SchoolDigger ranks the school 156th of 340 Kansas schools, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars; that is third among the four nearby schools, despite a 5-point percentile gain from the previous year. Its student-teacher ratio is 12, versus a nearby-school average of 8.4, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 53%, compared with a nearby average of 44%; these are context, not explanations for test results. In 2024–25, SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 91st percentile for serving Hispanic students (10th of 106 schools), while its ranking for White students was at the 29th percentile, below its overall 49th percentile that year.
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