Summary
Stockton High is a public high school in Stockton, Kansas, serving 83 students in grades 9–12; the supplied nearby comparison, Plainville High, is about 14 miles away and serves grades 7–12. Attendance is the clearest concern: in 2025–26, 46% of Stockton students were chronically absent, compared with 22% at Plainville, 27% in the Stockton district and 18% statewide.
Stockton’s test results are below district and state levels in all three subjects, but above Plainville’s in each. In 2025–26, proficiency was 28% in English language arts (ELA), 22% in math and 26% in science at Stockton; state rates were 46%, 41% and 38%, respectively. Compared with Plainville, Stockton was just 1 percentage point higher in ELA, 5 points higher in math and 10 points higher in science. Science is Stockton’s strongest result against the nearby school, while math is its weakest compared with the state and district. The latest supplied graduation rate, for 2023–24, was 77%, below the state’s 90% and Plainville’s 97%.
ELA and math have improved from very low results in 2022–23: ELA rose from 6% to 28%, and math from 0% to 22% by 2025–26. Progress was uneven, however, and science dipped from 28% to 26% over that period. SchoolDigger ranks Stockton at the 23rd percentile with 1 star (263rd of 340); Plainville is at the 9th percentile with 0 stars. Stockton’s overall percentile fell from 45 in 2023–24 to 23 in 2025–26. Its reported 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 6.6, versus 11.1 at Plainville, and its free/reduced-price lunch rate was 58%, versus 41%. SchoolDigger’s ranking for students classified as low socioeconomic status fell from the 60th percentile in 2024–25 to the 29th in 2025–26, while Stockton’s overall percentile was 23 in the latest year.
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