Summary:
Zip code 66442 has one middle school, Fort Riley Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 541 students. The clearest finding is that science is its strongest subject compared with Kansas: in 2025–26, 57% of students were proficient, versus 38% statewide, an 18-point advantage.
Because Fort Riley is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school leader or lowest performer to compare; within the school, however, grade 8 stood out and grade 6 had the weakest results. In 2025–26, grade 8 exceeded state results by 13 points in ELA (55% versus 42%) and 14 points in math (53% versus 40%); grade 7 was also above the state in both subjects. Grade 6 was below state results by 8 points in ELA (34% versus 42%) and 10 points in math (32% versus 41%). The school’s all-grades ELA and math rates were only about 1 point above Kansas—47% versus 46% in ELA, and 42% versus 41% in math—so its largest overall advantage was in science.
Fort Riley remained above state rates in all three all-grades subjects, but its lead narrowed from 2024–25 to 2025–26: by 8 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 3 in science. Its SchoolDigger ranking also fell from 53rd of 362 schools (85th percentile) in 2023–24 to 110th of 368 (70th percentile) in 2025–26, a 15-point percentile decline. Chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 18% districtwide and 18% statewide, while the student–teacher ratio was 11.1 and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 41% in 2024–25; these figures add context but do not provide a comparison with other local schools.
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