Summary:
Zip code 66743 has one listed high school, Girard High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 284 students. Its 2025–26 results were stronger than the state’s in all-grades ELA and math, but weaker in science; chronic absenteeism was also well below the state rate. The clearest academic concern is science: proficiency was 35%, compared with 38% statewide and 51% in the Girard district.
Girard High is the only school in the list, so it is both the highest and lowest locally by default; there is no meaningful school-to-school ranking. Against the state, its all-grades ELA proficiency was 57%, 11 points higher, and math was 45%, 4 points higher. Science was the exception, at 4 points below the state and 16 points below the district. Grade-specific comparisons add nuance: 10th-grade ELA was 16 points above the state, 10th-grade math was 8 points above, and 11th-grade science was 5 points above. The school’s 94% graduation rate matched the district and exceeded the state’s 90%; chronic absenteeism was 5%, compared with 18% statewide and 10% in the district.
Recent ELA and math scores improved, while SchoolDigger’s longer-term ranking history is less positive. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency rose 4 points and math rose 3 points; both increases outpaced the state’s gains, widening Girard’s leads by 3 points in ELA and 1 point in math. SchoolDigger ranked the school 65th of 340 in 2025–26, in the 81st percentile with 4 stars—down from the 92nd percentile and 5 stars in 2023–24, though up 1 percentile point from 2024–25. Its student–teacher ratio is 11.4, and its 2024–25 free/reduced-lunch rate was 44%; these describe the school’s context, not the cause of its results.
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