Summary:
Zip code 66834 has one listed school, Prairie Heights Elementary School, serving grades K–6 and enrolling 76 students. With no other listed schools in the area, the comparisons here are with Morris County and Kansas. The school’s 2025–26 results are mixed: science proficiency was above the state rate, ELA was close, and mathematics was much lower. The most important concern is math: 16% of students were proficient, compared with 41% statewide—a 25-point shortfall.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while math is its weakest. All-grades science proficiency was 50%, versus 38% statewide and 32% in the county; ELA was 44%, just 2 points below the state’s 46%. The grade-level results show a similar contrast: fifth-grade science was 50%, 4 points above Kansas, while fifth-grade math was 13%, 33 points below the state’s 45%. Prairie Heights was 2 points above the county in fifth-grade math, but still far below the state. Because this is the area’s only listed school, there are no local school-to-school leaders or laggards to compare.
Results changed in different directions over time. ELA rose from 38% in 2024–25 to 44% in 2025–26, narrowing the gap with Kansas. Math fell from 26% to 16%, while the state rate rose from 39% to 41%; the school’s math shortfall grew from 13 to 25 points. SchoolDigger rankings also remain below their earlier high: Prairie Heights ranked 158th of 653 schools (76th percentile) in 2023–24, 490th of 656 (25th percentile) in 2024–25, and 449th of 657 (32nd percentile) in 2025–26. The latest ranking improved by 41 places from the prior year but remained 291 places below the 2023–24 position. Other context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 8.4, a 62% free/reduced-lunch rate, and chronic absenteeism of 21%—3 points above Kansas and 6 points above the county.
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