Summary
Dighton High is a public school in Dighton, Kansas, serving grades 7–12 with 86 students; no other schools are listed within 20 miles. Its clearest academic strength is ELA, while math—especially compared with the district—is the biggest concern: in 2025–26, 54% of students were proficient in ELA, versus 50% in the district, but 35% were proficient in math, versus 58% in the district.
ELA is also above the state, while math and science are below it. In 2025–26, ELA proficiency was 54% at the school, compared with 46% statewide, an 8-point advantage; math was 35%, compared with 41% statewide, a 6-point shortfall. Science was 30%, below the state’s 38% and the district’s 33%. There are no nearby-school results for comparison, so these figures show how the school compares with the Dighton district and state, not with neighboring schools.
Results have moved in different directions: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA rose 21 points and math rose 12 points overall, though math fell from 43% in 2024–25 to 35% in the latest year. Science dropped 10 points over the full period, including a fall from 56% to 30% between the last two years. The school’s latest graduation rate was 100% in 2023–24, and chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–26, below the state’s 18%. SchoolDigger gave the school four stars and a statewide rank of 78 out of 332 (77th percentile) in 2024–25; its White Students measure fell from the 91st percentile in 2022–23 to the 68th in 2024–25, a notable decline in how well the school served that group by this measure. The student-teacher ratio was 7.5 in 2024–25, and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 43%.
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