Summary:
High schools in zip code 66713 are two Baxter Springs schools serving grades 7–12: Baxter Springs High and Unified School District 508 eAcademy. Their results show markedly different experiences: in 2025–26, Baxter Springs High had higher proficiency in all three reported subjects, while eAcademy had much higher chronic absenteeism (81% versus 16%) and a lower graduation rate (67% versus 98%). The clearest takeaway is that outcomes vary sharply between the two schools, rather than representing one shared picture of the area’s high schools.
Baxter Springs High leads the two-school comparison, with proficiency of 60% in English language arts (ELA), 49% in math and 54% in science; eAcademy recorded 36%, 9% and 26%, respectively. The gaps were 23 percentage points in ELA, 40 in math and 27 in science. Baxter was above state rates in all three subjects, while eAcademy was below them. The same contrast appears in graduation: 98% at Baxter versus 67% at eAcademy, a 31-point gap. Baxter’s dropout rate was 1% compared with 7% at eAcademy. Across both schools, the simple average was 2 points above the state in ELA and science, but 12 points below in math.
Recent results are mixed rather than uniformly improving. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Baxter’s ELA proficiency rose 3 points, while math fell 4 points and science fell 1; eAcademy’s ELA rose 5 points and math rose 9 points, from 0% to 9%. SchoolDigger ranked Baxter 68th of 340 schools and gave it four stars in 2025–26; eAcademy’s latest listed ranking was 275th of 332, with one star, in 2024–25. Baxter enrolls 361 students and has a student–teacher ratio of 11.2; eAcademy enrolls 36, and a ratio is not reported. Baxter’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 57%, while eAcademy’s rate is unavailable; these figures describe school context, not the cause of results.
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