Schools in Zip Code 66442

ZIP code 66442 has five schools in Geary County Schools: four elementary schools serving pre-K through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8. In 2025–26, the schools averaged 59% in English language arts (ELA), 49% in math and 66% in science, compared with Kansas averages of 46%, 41% and 38%. Every school beat the state in science; the area average was 27 points above the state, compared with 13 points in ELA and 8 in math. The clearest shared strength is science, while math is the less consistent subject.

Fort Riley Elementary is the strongest all-around performer: it leads in ELA at 69% and math at 64%, and is second in science at 71%. Its ELA lead over second-place Morris Hill Elementary is 2 points; its math lead over Ware Elementary is 12 points. Morris Hill leads science at 76% and is second in ELA at 67%. At the lower end, LTG Richard J. Seitz Elementary has the lowest math score, 38%, and science score, 55%; its math result is below the 41% state average. Fort Riley Middle School has the lowest ELA score, 47%. SchoolDigger gives Fort Riley Elementary five stars and a 90th-percentile statewide rank; Seitz ranks at the 51st percentile.

Average results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by 6 points in ELA, 5 in math and 8 in science, while Fort Riley Middle declined in all three subjects. Its SchoolDigger statewide percentile also fell from 85 to 70 over the three reported years. In contrast, Fort Riley Elementary made the largest gains—17 points in ELA, 13 in math and 17 in science—and its rank rose from 78 to 90, after dipping to 62. Context measures do not follow a simple pattern: Ware and Seitz have similar enrollments, 623 and 615, but Ware scores higher by 3 points in ELA and 14 points each in math and science; Ware also has the highest reported free/reduced-lunch rate, 55%.