Summary:
Zip code 66514 has one listed school, Milford Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 5 with 86 students, in Geary County Schools. The clearest strength in the latest results is science: proficiency was 75%, compared with 38% statewide and 44% in the district—37 and 31 percentage points higher, respectively.
There is no local school-to-school leader or trailer because only one school is listed. Across subjects, Milford Elementary was above the state in English language arts (55% versus 46%, a 9-point advantage), essentially at the state level in math (40.9% versus 41.0%), and far above it in science. Results vary considerably by grade: fourth graders were above the state in both ELA (70% versus 50%, 20 points higher) and math (70% versus 44%, 26 points higher). By contrast, grade 3 and grade 5 math were 14 and 10 points below the state, and grade 5 ELA was 6 points below. Grade 5 science was 29 points above the state.
Year-to-year results moved in different directions: science rose 39 points, from 36% in 2024–2025 to 75% in 2025–2026; ELA fell 5 points, from 60% to 55%; and math fell 12 points, from 53% to 41%. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from the 39th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 64th percentile in 2025–2026, although it dipped 2 percentile points from the prior year; the latest rank was 237 of 657. Other reported context includes a student–teacher ratio of 12, a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 52%, and chronic absenteeism of 18.0%, compared with 17.8% statewide and 18.3% in the district. These figures describe the school but do not establish why its results differ across subjects or grades.
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