Summary
Lakin Elementary serves pre-K through grade 5 and enrolls 290 students in Lakin, Kansas. In 2025–26, about 46% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 36% in math, and 41% in science. The most important academic concern is math: proficiency was about 5 percentage points below the state rate.
The school’s strongest subject compared with the state and district is science: its 41% proficiency rate was 3 points above the state and 3 points above the Lakin district. ELA was nearly level with the state and 7 points above the district; math was 5 points below the state and essentially level with the district. Among nearby schools with reported results, Lakin had the highest all-grades scores in each subject. Its results were about 46% in ELA, 36% in math, and 41% in science, compared with 43%, 35%, and 32% at Holcomb Elementary 3-5 and 31%, 28%, and 38% at Deerfield Elementary. Wiley Elementary has no scores supplied, and the schools serve different grade spans.
ELA has improved steadily, rising from 22% proficiency in 2022–23 to 46% in 2025–26, while math rose from 29% to 36% after peaking at 38% in 2024–25. SchoolDigger ranked Lakin at the 31st statewide percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26, up from the 17th percentile in 2022–23 but down from 34 the prior year. Its student-teacher ratio was 18.4, the highest among the nearby schools, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 61%, close to the nearby average of 61%; these figures describe context, not causes of results. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for English Language Learner students was notably higher than the school’s overall ranking, at the 79th percentile versus the 31st; the male-student ranking was lower, at the 19th percentile. Chronic absenteeism also fell sharply, from 25% in 2023–24 to 2% in 2025–26, below the district’s 4% and state’s 18%.
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