Summary:
ZIP code 66216 has five public schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. In 2025–26, the elementary schools averaged 61% proficiency in ELA, 60% in math and 51% in science—15, 19 and 13 percentage points above state results. But elementary ELA scores ranged from 46% to 69%, so the area’s strong average does not mean every school has similar results; the largest difference among elementary schools is in ELA.
Ray Marsh Elementary leads all five schools in ELA at 69%, while Rhein Benninghoven Elementary leads in math at 66% and science at 54%. Their ELA results are close, at 69% and 68%. Broken Arrow Elementary has the lowest ELA result, 46%, just above the state’s 46%; its math and science scores, 51% and 48%, are above state results. Shawnee Mission Northwest High has the lowest math and science results in the group, at 50% and 35%; its science score is below the state’s 38%. Trailridge Middle is above state results in all three subjects.
Recent results are mixed: the five-school math average rose 2 percentage points from 2024–25, while ELA rose 1 point; science fell 5 points among the four schools with results in both years. Individual changes differ—for example, Broken Arrow math rose 8 points, while Ray Marsh science fell 12. SchoolDigger’s three-year percentile ranking rose from 81 to 86 for Trailridge, stayed at 88 for Benninghoven, and fell from 93 to 85 for Ray Marsh. Attendance is another notable difference: Northwest’s chronic absenteeism was 32%, compared with 18% for the state and the Shawnee Mission Pub School district, even as Northwest’s ELA and math scores were above state results. These short-term scores and rankings are useful context, but they do not capture every aspect of a school.
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