Summary:
ZIP code 66610 has one listed school, Jay Shideler Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 492 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency was 67% in ELA, 65% in math and 58% in science, compared with 46%, 41% and 38% statewide. Its advantages over Kansas were 21, 24 and 20 percentage points, respectively; it was also about 17 points above Auburn-Washburn in each subject. The most important finding is that the school was well above state results in all three tested subjects.
Grade 4 is the clearest grade-level standout: ELA proficiency was 74%, 24 points above Kansas, and math was 74%, 30 points higher. The smallest listed grade-level advantage was in grade 3 ELA, where the school scored 56% versus 52% statewide, a 4-point gap; grade 3 math was 58%, 15 points higher than the state. Jay Shideler is the only school listed, so there is no local school-to-school comparison or separate top and bottom school.
Overall results were essentially steady across the two years of data: the school’s three-subject average was about 63% in both years. The subject pattern differed: its advantage over Kansas narrowed in math, from 27 points to 24, while the science gap widened from 16 to 20 points as statewide science results fell. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking moved from the 90th percentile in 2023–24 to the 87th in 2025–26, and its rating shifted from 5 stars to 4. Chronic absenteeism was 9%, compared with 18% in both the district and Kansas. The reported student-teacher ratio was 12.1, and the free/reduced-lunch rate was 15%; these figures provide context but do not explain the test results.
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