Summary:
Zip code 66724 has one high school, Southeast High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 152 students. The school’s 2025–26 proficiency results were below Kansas in all three subjects: ELA was 23% versus 46% statewide, mathematics was 28% versus 41%, and science was 18% versus 38%. The most important takeaway is that Southeast trails the state in every tested subject, by 23 points in ELA, 13 in mathematics, and 21 in science.
Because Southeast is the only listed school, it is both the area’s top and bottom performer by default; there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Mathematics is its relative bright spot: the 28% proficiency rate was about 1 point above the Cherokee district’s 27%, though still 13 points below the state. Science was the school’s lowest result, at 18%, and ELA was also low at 23%. Other outcomes show a mixed picture: graduation was 88% in 2023–24, matching the district and 2 points below the state’s 90%; the dropout rate was 3%, compared with 2% in the district. Chronic absenteeism was 28% in 2025–26, around 10 points higher than both the district and state.
Recent test-score movement is encouraging in ELA and mathematics, but gaps remain. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose from 14% to 23% and mathematics from 19% to 28%; their gaps with the state narrowed by 8 and 6 points, respectively. No second-year science result is provided to show a trend. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from the 7th percentile in 2024–25 (308th of 332 schools) to the 17th percentile in 2025–26 (283rd of 340), following a 55th-percentile result in 2023–24. The school’s profile also includes a 7.6 student–teacher ratio and a 63% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–25; these describe the school but do not establish why its results are as they are.
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