Summary:
Zip code 66080 has one elementary school, Central Heights Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 239 students, so families have no other school in this list for a local comparison. In 2025–2026, the school was above Kansas proficiency rates in all three subjects: 56% in English language arts (ELA) versus 46% statewide, 49% in math versus 41%, and 73% in science versus 38%. Its clearest strength is science, where it led the state by 35 percentage points.
Because it is the only listed school, Central Heights Elementary is both the area’s highest- and lowest-ranked school in this list; the school-to-school range is zero. Grade-level results, however, vary considerably, especially in math. Third-grade math proficiency was 26%, 17 points below the state, while fifth-grade math was 73%, 28 points above it; fourth grade was close to the state, at 44% versus 44%. ELA also rose across grades: third grade was 49% versus 52% statewide, while fifth grade was 68% versus 51%. These contrasts mean the all-grades averages do not describe every grade equally well.
Recent results show different directions by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA score fell 3 points and math fell 2, while science rose 15. Its ELA and math leads over Kansas narrowed by 5 and 4 points, respectively, while its science lead widened by 19 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking also slipped from 177th of 656 schools and 4 stars in 2024–2025 to 230th of 657 and 3 stars in 2025–2026, despite the science gain. Other context includes an 11.8 student-teacher ratio and free/reduced-lunch eligibility of 53%; chronic absenteeism was 11%, below the state’s 18% and the Central Heights district’s 12%. These figures offer context, not an explanation for the school’s results.
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