Summary:
Zip code 66710 has one listed school, Altoona-Midway Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 5 with 72 students. Its results vary notably by subject: 2025–26 science proficiency was 60%, compared with 38% statewide, while math proficiency was 28%, compared with 41% statewide. The clearest concern is grade 4 math, where 9% of students were proficient, 35 percentage points below Kansas.
Altoona-Midway Elementary is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school in this ZIP-code list, so there is no meaningful local school-to-school comparison. Science is its strongest subject relative to Kansas: all-grade proficiency was 22 percentage points above the state, and grade 5 science was 14 points above. Math was below the state overall and in both reported grades: 18 points below in grade 3 and 35 points below in grade 4. ELA was 4 points above Kansas overall, but that result masks a 27-point grade 3 shortfall; grade 4 ELA was 4 points above the state.
Recent results show math moving in the wrong direction relative to Kansas, while ELA remained steady. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, school ELA proficiency stayed at 50% as the state improved, narrowing the school’s advantage from 6 to 4 percentage points. School math fell from 31% to 28% while Kansas rose, widening the school’s gap from 8 to 13 points below the state. SchoolDigger ranked the school 474th of 657 in 2025–26, at the 28th percentile with one star; its ranking had been 68th of 653, at the 90th percentile with four stars in 2023–24. Chronic absenteeism was 21%, compared with 12% in the Altoona-Midway district and 18% statewide. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 8.4, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 69%.
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