Summary:
Zip code 66871 has two schools in the Lebo-Waverly district, serving grades PK–12 and enrolling 241 students: Waverly Elementary has 136 students, and Waverly High has 105. In 2025–26, both schools were above state results in mathematics and science, but their English Language Arts results differed sharply: Elementary was at 70% proficiency, compared with 43% at High. That 27-point gap—and High’s result 3 points below the state’s 46%—is the clearest difference for families to note.
Waverly Elementary stands out in ELA and math: it scored 70% in ELA and 63% in math, versus 43% and 47% at Waverly High. Both were above the state’s 41% math result. High led in science, scoring 54% to Elementary’s 43%; both exceeded the state’s 38%. SchoolDigger gives High five stars and ranks it 17th of 340 Kansas schools, in the 95th percentile; Elementary has four stars and ranks 131st of 657, in the 80th percentile. Grade-level results add nuance: High’s 11th-grade science was 70%, while its eighth-grade ELA was 29%, below the statewide 42%.
Recent score changes were mixed rather than consistent. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Elementary’s ELA rose 9 points, while its math fell 3 and science fell 29; High’s math rose 4 points, while its ELA and science each slipped about 2. High’s SchoolDigger ranking rose from 290th of 318 schools in 2023–24 to 17th of 340 in 2025–26, even though its scores did not rise in every subject. Elementary’s student–teacher ratio is 12.6, compared with 9.2 at High; their free/reduced-lunch rates are 45% and 44%, respectively. These are context, not explanations for results. Because the schools serve different grade spans and the data cover only two score years, comparisons and trends should be read with that in mind.
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