Summary:
Zip code 66539 has one listed high school, Silver Lake Junior-Senior High, serving grades 7–12, so there are no other local high schools to compare. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grade proficiency rates were above Kansas in English language arts, math and science. Its reported graduation rate was also higher than the state rate. The main takeaway is that results are above state levels overall, with a much larger advantage in math and science than in English.
Among the three subjects, science and math were the strongest relative results: the school was 17 points above Kansas in science and 16 points above in math, compared with 5 points in English. Its simple average across the three subjects was 54%, versus 42% statewide, an advantage of 13 points. Grade-level results show both a high point and a concern: eighth-grade English was 28 points above the state, while 10th-grade English was 7 points below it. The graduation rate was 96%, 7 points above Kansas; the dropout rate was 0%, about 1 point below the state. Chronic absenteeism was 17%, 1 point below the state but 6 points above the Silver Lake district rate.
The school remained above Kansas in all three all-grade subjects, but its advantage narrowed between the two reported years, especially in English. Its English rate fell from 61% to 51% as the state rate rose from 44% to 46%, reducing the school’s lead from 17 points to 5. The math lead narrowed from 21 to 16 points, while the science lead stayed about 17 points. SchoolDigger’s school ranking also fell, from 39th of 332 schools (88th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025 to 131st of 340 (61st percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. The school has 355 students, a 10.7 student-teacher ratio and a 21% free/reduced-lunch rate; these are useful context, not explanations for its results.
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