Osborne Elementary

In Osborne, Kansas, Osborne Elementary serves 194 students from prekindergarten through grade 5. In 2025–26, its all-grade proficiency rates were 54% in English Language Arts (ELA), 51% in math and 48% in science, each above the corresponding rate in Osborne County and Kansas. The most important takeaway is that the school is ahead of district and state averages in every tested subject, but nearby schools set a substantially higher bar in ELA and math.

Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the district and state: its advantage was 9 points over the district and 10 over Kansas, compared with 8 and 8 points in ELA and 7 and 9 in science. But compared with Lakeside Elementary and Tipton Community School, the school was behind in both ELA and math. Its ELA score of 54% was below their average of 75%, and its math score of 51% was below their average of 74%. Science was closer: the school scored 48%, about 8 points below Lakeside’s 56%. Results also vary by grade: grade 5 ELA was 57% at the school, slightly above Lakeside’s 56%, while grade 3 ELA was 52% versus Lakeside’s 91%. Tipton serves K–8, and its current science results were not supplied, so those comparisons are less direct.

Longer-term proficiency has risen in all three subjects since 2022–23, but recent results have weakened: math fell 8 points and science has dropped 17 points from its 2023–24 peak. SchoolDigger’s overall standing also declined, from the 79th percentile in 2023–24 to the 63rd in 2025–26; the current rating is 3 stars, down from 4 stars in the two prior years. The student–teacher ratio is a low 10.4, compared with 14.0 at Lakeside and 11.8 at Tipton; the school’s free/reduced-price lunch rate is higher, at 60%, versus 56% and 20%. In SchoolDigger’s statewide rankings of how well the school serves student groups, White students rank at the 43rd percentile, down from the 68th, while low socioeconomic status students rank at the 78th percentile, above the school’s overall 63rd-percentile standing.