Summary:
ZIP code 66043 has five schools in Lansing serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12, with 2,626 students enrolled; school sizes range from 58 at Kansas Heartland Virtual Academy to 860 at Lansing High. Results vary by school and subject, but the clearest concern is the virtual academy’s math proficiency: 8%, compared with 45% at the next-lowest school and 41% statewide.
Lansing Elementary leads all-grades ELA and math, with 55% proficient in ELA and 49% in math; Lansing Intermediate is next in both subjects, at 53% and 46%. The virtual academy is lowest in ELA too, at 39%, though its gap to the next-lowest school is 8 points. In science, Lansing Middle leads at 41%, with Intermediate close behind at 40%; the virtual academy is lowest at 30%. Middle and Intermediate also stand out in grade-specific results: Middle exceeded state results in all six listed grade 6–8 ELA and math comparisons, while Intermediate’s grade-5 science result was 6 points below the state.
Recent trends are mixed: across the four nonvirtual schools, average ELA proficiency rose from 50% to 51% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while math fell from 47% to 46%; in both subjects, the schools’ lead over the state narrowed. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for High fell from the 87th to the 69th percentile over three years, while Middle and Intermediate each declined 8 percentile points. Other figures offer context, not a simple explanation of results: Elementary has the highest reported student-teacher ratio (16.9) and free/reduced-lunch rate (44%), while Middle has the lowest ratio (13.3). High’s 92% graduation rate was above the state’s 90%, but its chronic absenteeism was 30%, compared with 18% statewide and the highest rate among the nonvirtual schools.
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