Summary:
Zip code 66781 has one listed school, Southeast Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 4, with 149 students; there are no other local schools in the list to compare. Its clearest strength is ELA: in 2025–26, 59% of students were proficient, 13 percentage points above Kansas. The most important concern is fourth-grade math, where 33% were proficient compared with 44% statewide, an 11-point shortfall.
There is no local top or bottom school because Southeast is the only school listed, but its results differ notably by subject and grade. Across all grades, math proficiency was 39%, 2 points below the state’s 41%. Third-grade ELA was 64%, 13 points above the state result; fourth-grade ELA was 52%, 2 points above. Third-grade math was essentially even with the state, while fourth-grade math was 33% versus 44%. Southeast also exceeded the Cherokee district in 2025–26 by 18 points in ELA and 12 points in math, even though its overall math result remained below the state.
Results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Southeast’s ELA proficiency rose from 49% to 59%, and math rose from 35% to 39%. The state also improved, but by less—1 point in ELA and 2 in math—so Southeast’s ELA lead widened by 9 points and its math shortfall narrowed by 2. SchoolDigger ranked Southeast 314th of 657 schools, at the 52nd percentile, in 2025–26, up from the 42nd percentile the previous year but below its 61st-percentile result in 2023–24. Context figures include a 10.4 student-teacher ratio and a 76% free/reduced-lunch rate for 2024–25; these describe the school but do not explain its scores. The data covers two years of all-grades results and grade-level results for grades 3 and 4 only.
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