Plainville Elementary

Plainville Elementary serves 256 students in prekindergarten through grade 6 in Plainville, Kansas, and is the largest of the four nearby schools in this comparison. Its 2025–26 results show a strong science outcome but uneven performance across grades and subjects. The most important academic concern is ELA: results are below the state and nearby schools overall, with grade 4 especially low.

Science is the school’s clearest strength: 54% of students were proficient, compared with 38% statewide and 26% in the Plainville district; its result was also 4 points above Stockton Elementary, the only nearby school with a reported science score. ELA proficiency was 35%—11 points below the state and 12 points below the nearby-school average, trailing Damar Elementary School, Natoma Elementary and Stockton. Mathematics was close to the state (39% versus 41%) and just above the nearby-school average. Grade-level results show why schoolwide figures need context: grade 4 was particularly weak in ELA and math, while grade 3 was above the state in both subjects and grade 5 math was also above it.

Results have improved overall, but not consistently: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, ELA rose 8 percentage points and math 10, while science climbed 28 points in the latest year after two years near 25%. ELA’s state gap widened over that period, while math ended slightly closer to the state. SchoolDigger ranks the school at the 37th percentile with 2 stars, up from the 20th percentile and 1 star in 2024–25. Its student–teacher ratio is 14.4, higher than the nearby schools’ reported 5.9–12.4; its free/reduced-lunch rate is 45%, below the nearby average of 55%. Attendance is a positive: chronic absenteeism was 12%, below the state’s 18%, and down 8 points from 2023–24. SchoolDigger’s measure for Female Students shows a notable change in how well the school serves that group: its percentile fell from 59 in 2017–18 to 38 in 2025–26, close to the school’s overall 37th percentile.