Summary:
Zip code 66040 has one listed middle school, Prairie View Middle, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 195 students; its latest results are mixed, but the clearest concern is English Language Arts (ELA), where proficiency is 7 percentage points below Kansas.
Because Prairie View Middle is the only school listed, there is no local top or bottom school to compare. Against Kansas, math is the school’s strongest subject: 43% of students were proficient, compared with 41% statewide, a 2-point advantage. Science was also ahead, at 40% versus 38%, while ELA was behind at 39% versus 46%. The grade results show that these patterns are not uniform: grade 7 math was 9 points above Kansas, but grade 8 math was 1 point below; ELA was 6 points below in grade 6 and 7 points below in grade 7, while grade 8 was 1 point above.
Results shifted unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 5 points, math rose 2 points, and science fell 2 points. Across the three subjects, the school’s unweighted average moved from 1 point above Kansas to 1 point below. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile rose from 55 to 61, then fell to 52, a net decline of 3 percentile points over three years. Other reported context includes a student-teacher ratio of 12.1 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 48%; chronic absenteeism was 14%, below the Prairie View district rate of 16% and Kansas’s 18%. These figures describe the school but do not identify a local school-to-school difference.
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