Summary
Noble Prentis Elementary serves 193 students in grades K–5 in Kansas City, Kansas. In 2025–26, 11% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 10% in math, and 8% in science—below both district and state rates in every subject. SchoolDigger ranked the school 654th of 657 statewide, at the 0th percentile with 0 stars. The clearest concern is its standing among nearby schools: it had the lowest ELA and math results and the second-lowest science result.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to nearby schools, while ELA is its clearest weakness. Nearby-school averages were 44% in ELA, 39% in math, and 32% in science, putting Noble Prentis 33, 29, and 24 percentage points below those averages, respectively. Its science result was 8%, just above John Fiske Elementary at 8%; in ELA, the state rate was 46% versus 11% at Noble Prentis, and in math it was 41% versus 10%. The school also trailed the Kansas City district by 11 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 6 in science. Grade-level results highlight particular concerns: fourth-grade ELA was 9%, the lowest nearby result, and fifth-grade math was 4%, tied for the lowest.
Over four years, the school’s results changed little overall in ELA and math, while science declined: ELA rose by just 0 points, math by 2 points, and science fell by 7 points from 2022–23 to 2025–26. Meanwhile, state proficiency rates rose in all three subjects, widening Noble Prentis’s gaps. SchoolDigger’s overall percentile fell from 11 in 2020–21 to 0 in 2025–26. Context includes a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 11.7 and a high free/reduced-lunch rate of 92%; neither alone explains test results. Chronic absenteeism improved from 38% to 24%, though it remained above the state’s 18%. SchoolDigger’s 2021–22 Special Education ranking was notably stronger than its overall standing: 125th of 305, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars, compared with the school’s overall 5th percentile that year. Its English Language Learner percentile later fell from 15 in 2023–24 to 2 in 2025–26.
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