Summary:
ZIP code 66018 has one listed middle school, Lexington Trails Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and 393 students, so families are evaluating a single-school profile rather than choosing among local middle schools; its 2025–26 results were above Kansas in all three subjects, especially science.
Lexington Trails’s strongest subject was science: 71% of students were proficient, 33 percentage points above Kansas and 13 points above De Soto. Mathematics was 65%, 24 points above the state and 4 points above the district; ELA was 66%, 20 points above the state and 1 point above the district. There is no other school in the ZIP-code list to rank at the top or bottom. Within the school, seventh-grade math is a notable exception: 55% were proficient, 17 points above Kansas but 4 points below the district. By contrast, sixth-grade math was 75%, 34 points above Kansas and 10 above the district.
Across the two years supplied, the school’s ELA and math results dipped slightly, while science rose by 2 percentage points. Its advantage over Kansas narrowed by 2 points in ELA and 3 in math, but widened by 5 in science, leaving results well above state figures in every subject. SchoolDigger ranked Lexington Trails 17th of 368 Kansas schools for 2025–26, in the 95th percentile, with five stars; its rank was 10th in 2023–24 and 12th in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 13%—5 points above the district and 5 below the state. The student–teacher ratio was 12.4, and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 32%; both are reported for 2024–25 and provide context, not an explanation for results.
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