Summary:
Zip code 66517 has one listed school, Ogden Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 in the Manhattan-Ogden district. With no other listed school for a local comparison, the clearest picture comes from comparing Ogden’s grades and subjects with Kansas results. The most important finding is that performance varies sharply by subject: in 2025–2026, science was 12 percentage points above the state, while math was 9 points below.
Ogden Elementary stands out most in science, with 50% proficient compared with 38% statewide; its 47% ELA result was about 1 point above Kansas, while its 32% math result was 9 points below. The grade-level differences are especially pronounced in ELA: fifth grade reached 60%, 9 points above the state’s 51%, while third grade was 25%, 27 points below the state’s 52%. Math was below the state in every reported grade, with gaps of 18 points in third grade, 16 in fourth, and 5 in fifth. So the all-grades ELA advantage does not reflect results equally across grades.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, most notably in science: Ogden gained 11 percentage points in science, 2 in ELA, and 2 in math. Its simple three-subject average moved from 4 points below Kansas to 1 point above, although math remained about 9 points behind. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 79th percentile with four stars in 2023–2024, then the 31st percentile with two stars in 2024–2025 and the 32nd percentile with two stars in 2025–2026. Chronic absenteeism was 21%, above Kansas’s 18% but below the district’s 22%; the reported student-teacher ratio was 10.2, and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 74%. These figures describe the school but do not explain its achievement results. Test scores are available for only two years, and the zip code has just one listed school.
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