Summary:
ZIP code 66212 has one high school, Shawnee Mission West High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 1,599 students. Its 2025–26 results show a sharp improvement in English language arts (ELA) and math, while science remains a weaker subject and chronic absenteeism is high: 34% of students were chronically absent, compared with 18% statewide. The most important headline is that recent ELA and math gains brought the school close to state results, especially in ELA.
There is no local top or bottom school to compare because Shawnee Mission West is the only high school in the list. Compared with the state, its all-grades ELA proficiency was essentially even at 46%, while math was 40%, about 1 point lower, and science was 31%, 7 points lower. The grade-specific comparisons were stronger: grade 10 ELA was 46%, 5 points above the state figure, and grade 10 math was 40%, 4 points above; grade 11 science was 31%, 1 point above its state comparison. The science contrast is worth noting: the all-grades result trails the state, although the supplied grade 11 result is slightly higher. Absenteeism was 17 points above both the district and state rates.
Results improved substantially from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose 12 points, from 34% to 46%, and math rose 11 points, from 30% to 40%. Over the same period, the state gains were 1 point in ELA and 2 points in math, narrowing the school’s gaps by 10 and 8 points, respectively. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars and ranks it 120th of 340 Kansas schools, an improvement of 110 places from its 2023–24 rank; its reported percentile rose from 28 to 65. The student–teacher ratio is 15.2, and 56% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, figures that describe the school’s context but do not explain its results. Because this is the only listed school, the data cannot show local school-to-school patterns.
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