Summary:
Zip code 66618 has one high school, Lawrence Gardner High School, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 111 students. Its reported 2025–26 proficiency rates are far below state results in all three subjects, the clearest concern for families weighing the school’s outcomes.
There are no other high schools in this list to compare for local top or bottom results, so the statewide figures offer the main benchmark. In 2025–26, Lawrence Gardner recorded 4% proficiency in English language arts (ELA), 4% in mathematics and 0% in science, compared with state rates of 46%, 41% and 38%; the school was lower by 42, 37 and 38 percentage points, respectively. Mathematics was the closest of the three subjects to the state result, but remained substantially lower. Other outcomes also differed sharply: the 2023–24 graduation rate was 11% versus 90% statewide, while the 2024–25 dropout rate was 22% versus 1%. Reported chronic absenteeism is a notable counterpoint: 0% at the school in 2025–26, compared with 18% statewide.
The school’s test-score gaps with the state widened from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in both subjects with consecutive years of data. The ELA gap grew by 2 percentage points, from 40 to 42, while the math gap grew by 8 points, from 28 to 37. SchoolDigger ranked Lawrence Gardner 320th of 327 schools in 2022–23, 328th of 332 in 2024–25 and 339th of 340 in 2025–26, with its listed percentile moving from 2 to 1 to 0. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 41.7 in 2024–25 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 92%; these describe the school, not the cause of its results. Because the area list contains just one school, it cannot show how these outcomes compare with nearby peers.
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