Summary:
ZIP code 66403 has two schools in the Prairie Hills district: Axtell Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 8, and Axtell High, which serves grades 9–12; there is no separate middle school. The most striking current result is at Axtell High, where 90% of students were proficient in 2025–26 All Grades math—49 points above the state’s 41%.
Axtell High leads the schools’ All Grades results in both math and ELA: its 90% math result was 29 points higher than Elementary’s 61%, and its 60% ELA result was 4 points higher than Elementary’s 56%. High’s grade 10 results also beat state figures, by 53 points in math and 19 points in ELA. Elementary’s All Grades results were above the state in ELA, math, and science, but its grade-level picture is mixed: sixth-grade ELA and math were 49 and 41 points above state results, while seventh-grade ELA was 14 points below and eighth-grade math was 2 points below. Elementary also stands out for low chronic absenteeism: 2%, compared with 10% at High and 18% statewide. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their All Grades figures are not a same-grade comparison.
Results rose sharply at Axtell High from 2024–25 to 2025–26: All Grades math increased from 50% to 90%, and ELA from 33% to 60%. Elementary’s ELA and math also rose, by 4 and 2 points, while its science result fell 22 points, from 72% to 50%; it nevertheless remained 12 points above the state. SchoolDigger ranks High 6th of 340 Kansas high schools, in the 98th percentile, and Elementary 60th of 657 elementary schools, in the 91st percentile. High has 49 students and a student-teacher ratio of 8.8, compared with 113 students and a ratio of 9.8 at Elementary. Its reported free/reduced-lunch rate is also lower, 24% versus 38%; these figures provide context, not an explanation for test results.
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