Unified School District 265 - Goddard Virtual School

Unified School District 265 - Goddard Virtual School is an alternative K–12 virtual school in Goddard, Kansas, with 29 students. Its reported graduation rate fell to 40% in 2023–2024, down from 100% in 2020–2021; that latest rate was 53 points below the Goddard district’s 93% and 50 points below the state’s 90%. The following year, its dropout rate was 21.9%, compared with 0.5% in the district and 1.2% statewide. These completion figures are the school’s most urgent concern.

Science is the school’s clearest strength against nearby virtual schools, while ELA is its weakest subject relative to the district and state. In 2025–2026, 32% of students were proficient in science—below the state’s 38% and district’s 45%, but above the four nearby schools’ average of 22%. The school ranked second of five in science and math, and third in ELA. Its ELA proficiency was 25%, compared with 46% statewide and 53% in the district. Grade-level results also vary: 10th-grade math proficiency was 8%, below the school’s all-grades 21% and lower than results at Derby Virtual School (16%), Education Imagine Academy (11%) and Maize Virtual Preparatory School (67%).

Recent ELA and math results improved, but large gaps remain. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency rose from 23% to 25%, and math rose from 17% to 21%; the gap with the state narrowed slightly in ELA and by 2 points in math. SchoolDigger’s figures for the district—not the school—show a rank of 91 out of 268, the 66th percentile and 3 stars. The school’s reported student-teacher ratio was 34 and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 9% in 2022–2023; those figures provide context, not a like-year comparison with nearby schools. Chronic absenteeism was reported as 0% in each of four years, alongside the graduation and dropout concerns. These attendance, staffing and lunch figures come from different years and do not establish how the school’s outcomes compare with those of nearby schools on a like-for-like basis.