Oakley Elementary

Oakley Elementary serves 191 students in prekindergarten through grade 4 in Oakley, Kansas. Its strongest subject is English Language Arts (ELA), while math results are weaker and vary sharply by grade. The most important concern is fourth-grade math: just 25% of students were proficient, compared with 44% statewide.

In 2025–2026, Oakley Elementary’s ELA proficiency was 54%—above its district’s 39% and the state’s 46%; its 37% in math was slightly above its district’s 34% but below the state’s 41%. Grinnell Grade School, the nearby school in the supplied comparison, scored 91% in ELA and 82% in math, well above Oakley Elementary in both subjects. Within Oakley Elementary, third-grade math was 45%, slightly above the state’s 43%, while fourth-grade math was 19 percentage points below its state comparison. ELA was more consistent, with both third- and fourth-grade results above their respective state results.

Oakley Elementary’s ELA proficiency rose 17 points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, outpacing the state’s 13-point increase; math rose only 1 point while the state gained 10. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and places it at the 45th percentile (rank 361 of 657); its overall percentile has risen from 40 to 45 since 2023–2024, though it has varied considerably over time. One notable group result is for students with low socioeconomic status: SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for how well the school serves this group fell from 65 to 36 over two years, compared with an overall school percentile of 45. Context measures show a higher student-teacher ratio at Oakley Elementary than at Grinnell Grade School (14.5 versus 7.7), while their free/reduced-lunch rates were similar (48% and 47%).