Summary:
Zip code 66935 has one listed high school, Republic County Junior/Senior High School, serving grades 6–12 and 245 students. With no other high schools in the area, comparisons with Kansas and the Republic County district offer the clearest picture. The biggest academic concern is ELA: in 2025–26, 34% of students were proficient, compared with 46% statewide—a gap of 12 percentage points.
The school’s strongest all-grades result relative to Kansas was science: 37% were proficient, just 1 percentage point below the state’s 38%; math was 6 points below the state, at 35% versus 41%. The school was below district results in all three subjects, by 13 points in ELA, 10 in math, and 11 in science. Grade-level results show important exceptions: grade 10 math was 9 points above the state, and science was above the state in both reported grades—by 4 points in grade 8 and 1 point in grade 11. By contrast, the reported grade 6–8 ELA and math results were all below state levels. Since this is the only listed school, there is no local top or bottom school to distinguish.
Results shifted unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA fell by 1 percentage point, math rose by 5, and science rose by 1. The average gap from the state across the three subjects narrowed from about 8 percentage points to about 6, but ELA’s gap widened while math and science gaps narrowed. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars and ranks it 130th of 340 Kansas schools, up 46 places from the prior year; its listed percentile rose from 47 to 62. Other context includes a 10.8 student–teacher ratio and a 52% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–25. The graduation rate was 91% versus 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 12% versus 18% statewide.
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