St John Elementary

St John Elementary is a public school in St John, Kansas, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, with 225 students in the St John-Hudson district. Its 2025–26 results show a clear bright spot in English Language Arts (ELA), but achievement is mixed overall: ELA is the school’s strongest current result, while math remains below state and district levels.

In 2025–26, 52% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 46% statewide and 45% districtwide; that also topped the nearby-school average of 47%. However, Macksville Elementary scored higher in ELA, at 56%, and math, at 44%. St John’s math result was 38%, below the state’s 41%, the district’s 40%, and the nearby average of 39%. Science proficiency was 37%, close to the district’s 37% and below the state’s 38%; Stafford Elementary scored lower than St John in all three subjects. Macksville’s science result was not supplied. Within St John, grade 4 math was a strength at 58%, but grade 6 ELA was 25%, versus 42% statewide.

Across the four years shown, ELA rose 16 percentage points and science 17, while math fell 14; ELA also dropped from 62% in 2024–25 to 52% in 2025–26, so improvement has not been steady. SchoolDigger rated St John at the 46th percentile with 2 stars, between Macksville (64th percentile, 3 stars) and Stafford (18th percentile, 1 star). The school’s student-teacher ratio was 15.7, compared with 9.2 at Macksville and 10.6 at Stafford. Attendance is a relative strength: chronic absenteeism was 10%, below the state’s 18% and district’s 22%, and down from 15% in 2022–23. SchoolDigger’s statewide group rankings also differed notably: Female Students ranked at the 69th percentile, above the school’s 46th overall, while Low Socio Economic Status Students ranked at the 28th percentile.