Summary:
Zip code 66864 has one listed school, Neosho Rapids Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 107 students. Its student-teacher ratio is 9.1 to 1. In 2025–26, proficiency was below Kansas results in all three reported subjects: 37% versus 46% in English language arts (ELA), 33% versus 41% in math, and 33% versus 38% in science. The most important finding is that the school’s latest all-grade results were below the state in every subject.
There is no meaningful local top or bottom school comparison because Neosho Rapids is the only school listed. Within its results, science was closest to the state in 2025–26, at 5 percentage points below, while ELA had the largest all-grade gap, at 9 points below; math was 8 points below. Grade-level results show where comparisons differ: fifth-grade ELA was 27% at the school versus 51% statewide, a 24-point gap, while third-grade math was the school’s strongest grade-level comparison, though still 3 points below the state. Fourth-grade math was its weakest math comparison, 19 points below state results.
The school’s overall results shifted from the prior year, when science was a relative strength: in 2024–25, science proficiency was 53%, 12 points above the state, but it fell 20 points the next year and ended 5 points below. ELA fell 6 points, while math rose 1 point; the ELA gap with the state widened by 8 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile also declined, from the 49th percentile in 2023–24 to the 22nd in 2025–26. Chronic absenteeism was a more favorable comparison, at 16% versus 18% statewide and 18% in the Southern Lyon County district. The school’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 56%, an income-related measure that provides context but does not explain test results.
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