Summary:
ZIP code 66202 has two high schools in the Shawnee Mission Public School district: Shawnee Mission North High, serving grades 9–12, and Project Finish, serving grade 12. North is the only school with reported test results, so the available information cannot establish which school performs better overall. Its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency was below the state in ELA, math, and science, making North’s below-state results the clearest achievement finding for this area.
North’s strongest all-grades subject result relative to the state was ELA, though it was still 5 percentage points lower; math was 6 points lower and science 8 points lower. Some grade-specific results were closer: grade-10 ELA was slightly above the state, and grade-11 science was effectively even. North’s attendance and completion measures show a mixed picture: chronic absenteeism was 38%, versus 18% districtwide and statewide, while its graduation rate was 83%, compared with 89% for the district and 90% for the state. Project Finish cannot be placed above or below North on achievement because it has no reported test or outcome rates.
North’s results shifted unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA proficiency fell from 46% to 41%, math rose from 32% to 35%, and science fell from 40% to 30%. Relative to the state, the ELA gap worsened by 6 percentage points and the science gap by 7, while the math gap stayed roughly steady; the average gap across the three subjects widened by 4 points. SchoolDigger gives North 3 stars and ranks it 165th of 340 schools, at the 51st percentile. Its percentile standing rose from 42 in 2023–24 to 56 in 2024–25, then dipped to 51. North enrolls 1,502 students, compared with Project Finish’s 28; North’s student-teacher ratio is 15 and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 54%. Project Finish has no comparable reported figures, so these differences do not support a like-for-like comparison.
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