Summary
Located in Stafford, Kansas, Stafford Middle School/High School serves grades 6–12 and enrolls 116 students. Its results are uneven: science stands out as a strength, while math and some high-school results are weak. The clearest concern is 10th grade, where proficiency was just 6% in both ELA and math, compared with 41% and 37% statewide.
Across all grades, science is stronger than results at the state, district and nearby-school levels: Stafford’s 42% proficiency compares with 38% statewide, 37% in the Stafford district and 37% at St John High. Math is the clearest weakness, at 24% versus 41% statewide, 27% in the district and 44% at St John. ELA was 37%, below the state’s 46%, about even with the district’s 37%, and above St John’s 35%. In 10th-grade ELA and math, Stafford also trailed St John, whose results were 23% and 31%.
Science improved from 16% in 2022–23 to 42% in 2025–26, though it fell from a 60% peak the previous year. Math rose from 15% to 24%, but its gap to the state remained about 17 percentage points; ELA rose from 31% to 37%, while its gap to the state widened. SchoolDigger ranks the school 288th of 340, at the 15th percentile and one star, down 21 percentile points from 2023–24. By comparison, St John ranks at the 49th percentile with two stars. Staffing ratios are nearly identical—9.6 students per teacher at Stafford and 9.5 at St John—while the free/reduced-lunch rate is 50% at Stafford and 42% at St John; these are contextual differences, not explanations for score results. SchoolDigger’s statewide standing for White students fell from the 40th percentile in 2024–25 to the 7th in 2025–26, below the school’s overall 15th percentile. In 2021–22, its standing for low-income students was the 64th percentile, compared with 18th overall. With 116 students, yearly results may fluctuate.
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