Summary:
Zip code 66860 has one high school, Madison High, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 106 students, so families have no other local high school for a direct school-to-school comparison. In 2025–26, Madison was above Kansas in English language arts (ELA) and science, but below the state in math. The most important finding is the math reversal: Madison went from 6 points above Kansas in 2024–25 to 4 points below in 2025–26.
Madison’s strongest all-grades comparison was science: 48% of students were proficient, versus 38% statewide, a 10-point advantage; in ELA, it was 52% versus 46%, a 6-point advantage. Math was the exception, with 37% proficient compared with 41% statewide, a 4-point shortfall. Results also varied considerably by grade: grade 7 ELA was 19 points above Kansas, while grade 8 ELA was 6 points below; grade 8 math was 13 points above the state, while grade 7 math was 11 points below. Grade 11 science stood out at 28 points above Kansas. These figures show why the all-grades results do not tell the whole story for families.
Recent subject trends were mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Madison’s ELA result rose 5 points and science rose 2, while math fell 8; its advantage over Kansas widened in ELA and science but swung from above to below the state in math. SchoolDigger ranked Madison 56th of 340 schools in 2025–26, an improvement from 68th of 332 the prior year, but still below its 31st-of-318 position in 2023–24; its percentile was 84th, compared with 80th and 90th in those earlier years. Chronic absenteeism was 12%, below Kansas’s 18%, while graduation was 88%, compared with 90% statewide. The student–teacher ratio was 8.1, and 58% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. With only one school and 106 students, these figures cannot establish local school-to-school differences.
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