Summary:
Zip code 66724 has two schools in the Cherokee district: Southeast Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 128 students, and Southeast High, serving grades 9–12 with 152. Their 2025–2026 results show different subject strengths, but neither school reaches the state proficiency rate in English language arts (ELA), mathematics or science. The most important finding is that both schools remain below the state in every reported all-grades subject.
Southeast Middle stands out in ELA and science, with 40% proficient in ELA versus 23% at Southeast High, and 29% in science versus 18%—leads of 17 and 11 percentage points. The high school leads in mathematics, 28% to 22%, a 6-point difference. Compared with state results, the middle school is closest in ELA, 6 points below, while the high school is furthest behind in ELA, 23 points below. A grade-level bright spot is middle-school sixth-grade ELA at 50%, 8 points above the state result; its seventh-grade mathematics is 13%, 24 points below the state.
Results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in the reported subjects: high-school ELA increased by 9 percentage points and mathematics by 9; middle-school ELA rose by 2 points, mathematics by 1 and science by 2. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings also improved in the latest year: the high school rose from 7 to 17, while the middle school rose from 15 to 27. Attendance is a notable difference: chronic absenteeism is 28% at the high school, above the district’s 18% and state’s 18%, compared with 9% at the middle school. The middle school also has higher free/reduced-lunch enrollment (70% versus 63%) and a higher student-teacher ratio (9.5 versus 7.6); these are contextual differences, not explanations for scores.
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