Summary:
Zip code 66086 has one elementary school, Tonganoxie Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 919 students. Chronic absenteeism is lower than both comparison rates: 14% at the school, compared with 15% in the Tonganoxie district and 18% statewide. The clearest academic strength is science: half of students were proficient, about 12 percentage points above the state rate of 38%.
There is no school-to-school comparison in this ZIP code, so the standout and weaker results are subjects at the same school. Science led, while ELA and math fell short of state rates: ELA proficiency was 45% versus 46% statewide, and math was 39% versus 41%. The science result was 50% versus 38% statewide. Grade-level results show that ELA and math were below state rates in each reported grade, while fifth-grade science was above the state rate: 50% versus 46%. The largest grade-level shortfall was third-grade ELA, at 41% compared with 52% statewide; fifth-grade math was 38% versus 45%.
Recent results moved in different directions by subject. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell 3 points at the school while rising 1 point statewide, shifting the school from a 3-point advantage to a 1-point deficit. Math improved 2 points, but the state gained 2 points, leaving the school 2 points behind. Science rose 5 points as the state fell 3 points, expanding the school’s advantage to 12 points. SchoolDigger’s school ranking also declined over three years, from 330th of 653 schools and the 49th percentile in 2023–24 to 402nd of 657 and the 39th percentile in 2025–26; the district is ranked 117th of 268 by SchoolDigger, in the 56th percentile, with three stars. The school’s student-teacher ratio is 14.5, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 35% in 2024–25; these figures offer context, not explanations for results.
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