Best Public Schools in Zip Code 66845

Summary:

The 66845 zip code is home to a single public high school, Chase County Junior Senior High School, which serves grades 7-12 with an enrollment of 170 students. The school is part of the Chase County school district, which is ranked 79 out of 264 districts in Kansas and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Chase County Junior Senior High School appears to be a relatively strong-performing school, outpacing the state averages in several academic areas, including ELA proficiency (50% vs. 44.47%), Math proficiency (46% vs. 38.73%), and Science proficiency (47.22% vs. 41.44%) in the 2024-2025 school year. The school also has a strong 4-year graduation rate of 89.5% and a low dropout rate of 1.3%. However, the school has a relatively high chronic absenteeism rate of 19.5%, which may be an area of concern.

The school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, going from a statewide ranking of 51st out of 332 Kansas high schools in 2024-2025 (4-star rating) to 122nd out of 318 in 2023-2024 (3-star rating) and 163rd out of 327 in 2022-2023 (3-star rating). Despite these changes, the school appears to be well-resourced, with a spending per student of $14,889 in the 2018-2019 school year and a student-teacher ratio of 11.6 in 2023-2024.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				KAP English Language Arts (2025)				KAP Mathematics (2025)				KAP Science (2025)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	KAP English Language Arts 7th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 8th Grade	KAP English Language Arts 10th Grade	KAP English Language Arts All Grades	KAP Mathematics 7th Grade	KAP Mathematics 8th Grade	KAP Mathematics 10th Grade	KAP Mathematics All Grades	KAP Science 8th Grade	KAP Science All Grades	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Chase County Junior Senior High School	Public	7-12	600 Main Street	Cottonwood Falls	66845	Chase County	Chase County	No	No	No	No	(620) 273-6354	192	17	11.4	36.5%	178 (92.7%)	1 (0.5%)	12 (6.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.5%)	80.7	51^st of 332 public high schools	84.6%		56.1	122^nd of 318 public high schools	61.6%	71	51.3	52.8	44.4	50.0	35.1	47.2	59.3	46.0	47.2	47.2	$16,391	$1,067	$15,324

Cities Near Zip Code 66845

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Cottonwood Falls	0.48 mi	1	42^nd
Strong City	2.17 mi	1	271^st
Emporia	17.89 mi	9	280^th
Americus	18.17 mi	1	147^th
Council Grove	20.56 mi	3	150^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kansas State Department of Education.

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