Goodland Junior-Senior High School

Goodland Junior-Senior High School serves 388 students in grades 7–12 in Goodland, in northwest Kansas. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates are below state averages in English language arts (ELA), math and science, although science is close to the district average. The central finding for families is that math is the school’s clearest academic weakness: 20% of students were proficient, compared with 41% statewide and 28% in the district.

Results vary by subject when compared with nearby Brewster High: Goodland’s ELA proficiency was 32%, 12 points higher than Brewster’s 20%, while its math proficiency was 20%, 4 points lower than Brewster’s 24%. Goodland’s ELA rate was 14 points below the state and 5 below the district; in science, its 28% rate was 10 points below the state but just above the district’s 27%. Grade-level results show a science bright spot in eighth grade (40% proficient versus 39% statewide) and a much weaker result in 11th grade (15% versus 30%); math was below the state in every listed grade, with eighth grade especially low (16% versus 40%). Nearby score comparisons are limited to Brewster, as no scores are supplied for Goodland Virtual School.

Scores have risen since 2022–23: ELA gained 13 points, math 3 and science 8, but math’s gap with the state widened from 15 to 21 points. Chronic absenteeism improved from 31% to 16%, now slightly below the state rate of 18%. SchoolDigger ranks Goodland at the 21st percentile, with 1 star, in 2025–26—up from the 11th percentile the year before, though still below most Kansas schools. Its SchoolDigger ranking for students from low socioeconomic-status backgrounds is notably lower: the 7th percentile, compared with the school’s overall 21st percentile, after falling from the 29th percentile in 2023–24. For context, Goodland has a reported student-teacher ratio of 13.6 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 43%; these are observations, not explanations for its results.