Elk Valley High School

Elk Valley High School is a public high school located in Longton, Kansas, serving grades 6-12 with a total enrollment of 57 students. Over the past decade, this school has made significant strides, moving from the bottom 20% of Elk Valley high schools in 2010-2011 to the top 26% in 2023-2024, earning a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Elk Valley High School's strengths include consistently high graduation rates, ranging from 88.1% to 100% over the past five years, significantly outperforming the state average. The school also maintains low dropout rates, ranging from 1.3% to 1.7%, lower than the state average. However, the school's performance on state assessments is mixed, with strong results in 8th-grade English Language Arts and Science, but lagging behind in Mathematics across all grades. Interestingly, the school's 6th and 7th-grade English Language Arts scores exceed the state average.

Despite the school's high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, ranging from 80.85% to 82.93% over the past three years, indicating significant economic challenges, Elk Valley High School spends significantly more per student ($20,129 in 2018-2019) compared to the nearby Fredonia Junior/Senior High School ($10,668 in 2018-2019) and Sedan High ($13,866 in 2018-2019). This efficient resource allocation has allowed the school to maintain a relatively low student-teacher ratio, ranging from 7.1 to 11.4 over the past three years.