Summary:
ZIP code 66073 has two schools in Perry Public Schools: Perry-Lecompton Middle, serving grades 5–8 with 234 students, and Perry Lecompton High, serving grades 9–12 with 268 students. Their results show different subject strengths, rather than one school leading across the board. The clearest academic concern is middle-school math in grades 7 and 8, where results trail Kansas by 15 and 16 percentage points, respectively.
Perry-Lecompton Middle stands out in all-grades English and science, while Perry Lecompton High leads in math: middle-school results were 44% in English and 42% in science, compared with the high school’s 39% and 32%; high-school math was 39%, versus 31% at the middle school. The middle school’s science result was 4 points above the state, while its math was 10 points below. At the high school, grade 10 math was 3 points above the state for that grade, and grade 11 science was 2 points above. SchoolDigger ranks the high school 151st of 340 (56th percentile, 3 stars) and the middle school 259th of 368 (30th percentile, 2 stars). Because these schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are broad profiles, not direct comparisons of the same grades.
Recent test-score changes are more positive at the high school: English rose by 9 points and math by 8 from 2024–25 to 2025–26. At the middle school, English rose by 2 points, but math fell by 2; its science result improved by 3 points and moved from below to above the state result. Other indicators offer a mixed picture: the high school’s graduation rate was 92%, above the state’s 90%, but its chronic absenteeism was 28%, compared with 19% at the middle school and 18% statewide. SchoolDigger rankings also shifted in opposite directions last year: the high school’s percentile rose from 32 to 56, while the middle school’s fell from 50 to 30. Student–teacher ratios are similar at 14.0 and 13.8, respectively; reported free/reduced-lunch rates were 30% at the high school and 40% at the middle school.
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