Summary:
ZIP code 66424 has one middle school, Everest Middle, serving grades 5–8 and 151 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 34% in English language arts (ELA), 36% in math, and 26% in science—below Kansas results of 46%, 41%, and 38%, respectively. It was slightly above South Brown County in all three subjects, by 1 point in ELA, 5 in math, and 1 in science. The most important concern is that 8th-grade results were far below state results in every tested subject.
Results vary sharply by grade: 6th grade is the standout, while 8th grade is the clearest weak spot. Sixth-grade ELA was 55%, 13 points above the state, and math was 60%, 19 points above. By contrast, 8th-grade ELA was 13%, 30 points below the state; math was 8%, 31 points below; and science was 10%, 29 points below. Other results are mixed: 7th-grade math was 48%, 10 points above the state, while 7th-grade ELA was nearly even. Fifth-grade ELA and math were below state results by 21 and 8 points. Because Everest is the only school in the list, there is no local school-to-school comparison.
Year over year, ELA and math improved, but science declined: ELA rose from 29% to 34% and math from 32% to 36% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while science fell from 38% to 26%. Everest Middle also moved up in SchoolDigger’s ranking, from 308th of 362 schools (15th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 217th of 368 (41st percentile) in 2025–2026; SchoolDigger rates it 2 stars. Its student-teacher ratio was 10.7 in 2024–2025, and 64% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch that year. Chronic absenteeism was 23%, compared with 28% districtwide and 18% statewide. These figures offer context, but the latest subject results remain uneven.
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