Summary:
Zip code 66801 has one middle school, Emporia Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 843 students. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates were 33% in English language arts (ELA), 23% in math, and 29% in science, compared with 46%, 41%, and 38% statewide. The most important finding is that the school was below Kansas in all three subjects, with its largest gap in math: 23% proficient versus 41% statewide, an 18-point difference.
Because it is the only school in the list, Emporia Middle School is both the local top and bottom school; there is no other listed school to compare it with. Science is its closest subject to the state result: 29% proficient, 9 points below Kansas. ELA was 33%, 13 points below, while math was 23%, 18 points below. Grade-level results show a relative high point in seventh-grade ELA, at 38%, compared with 29% in sixth grade and 31% in eighth grade. Seventh-grade math is a particular concern: 18% were proficient, 20 points below the state result for that grade. These figures show different strengths and needs by subject and grade, rather than one uniformly stronger grade.
Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose by about 1 point and math by 3 points, while science fell by 2 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 308th of 368 Kansas schools, at the 16th percentile, with one star; its ranking was at the 25th percentile in 2023–24, a 9-point decline across the reported years. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 13.3, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 67% in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism was 23% in 2025–26, compared with 18% statewide, while the 2024–25 dropout rate was 0% when rounded, versus 1% statewide.
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