Fredonia Junior/Senior High School

Fredonia Junior/Senior High School serves 314 students in grades 7–12 in Fredonia, Kansas, and its nearby comparison schools include Elk Valley High School, Altoona-Midway Middle/High School and Neodesha High. The central takeaway is that Fredonia’s test results have rebounded considerably, but proficiency remains below the state in ELA, math and science.

ELA is Fredonia’s clearest strength: about 39% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, the highest rate among the nearby schools with results and above the nearby average of 23%. It was also above the Fredonia district rate of about 37%, but below the state’s 46%. Math proficiency was about 30%, and science was about 27%; both were above nearby averages, but below state and district rates. Fredonia ranked second among the nearby schools in those subjects, behind Neodesha. Science has a notable grade-level gap: 8th-grade proficiency was about 39%, close to the state’s 39%, while 11th-grade proficiency was about 12%, compared with 30% statewide.

Results have improved substantially since 2022–2023: ELA rose 21 percentage points, math 22 points and science 12 points, though science declined from about 32% in 2024–2025 to 27% the following year. SchoolDigger ranks Fredonia at the 24th percentile statewide, with one star, up from the 3rd percentile the prior year; Neodesha is at the 53rd percentile. A striking SchoolDigger subgroup result is that students identified as low socioeconomic status ranked at the 76th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 13th percentile a year earlier and well above Fredonia’s overall ranking. The school’s student-teacher ratio is 14.4, compared with a nearby average of 8.7; its free/reduced-lunch rate is about 50%, below two nearby schools’ rates of about 65%. Graduation was 95% in 2023–2024, above the state’s 90%, while chronic absenteeism rose to 21% in 2025–2026, above the state’s 18%.