Schools in Zip Code 66509

Zip code 66509 has one listed school, Royal Valley Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 270 students. The school’s 2025–2026 chronic-absenteeism rate was 10%, below the district’s 11% and Kansas’s 18%. The biggest takeaway is that results vary sharply by grade: grades 7–8 were generally stronger relative to the state, while grades 5–6 lagged in both ELA and math.

Because it is the only school listed, Royal Valley Middle School cannot be ranked against local peers. Its clearest all-grades strength was science: 42% proficient, 4 points above Kansas. ELA was its largest relative weakness, at 38% compared with 46% statewide—8 points lower. Math was close to the state result: 40.7% versus 41.0%, less than 1 point lower. Grade results show where those overall figures conceal differences: ELA proficiency was 20 points below the state in grade 5 and 12 points below in grade 6, but 10 points above in grade 8. In math, grades 5–6 were 16 and 11 points below, while grades 7–8 were 16 and 14 points above.

Science improved the most over time, rising 12 points to 42%, while the state result fell 3 points; the school shifted from 11 points below Kansas to 4 points above. ELA moved in the opposite direction: it fell 1 point as the state rose 1 point, widening the school’s shortfall by 3 points. SchoolDigger rankings also show a partial rebound: from 88th of 362 schools in 2023–2024 (76th percentile) to 163rd of 363 (55th percentile), then 134th of 368 (64th percentile) in 2025–2026. That latest position is 9 percentile points above the middle year but 12 below the earliest year. Other context includes an 11.9 student-teacher ratio and a 54% free/reduced-lunch rate; these figures describe the school, not the cause of its results. With only one school listed, area-wide comparisons between schools are not possible.