Summary:
Zip code 66966 has one high school, Pike Valley High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 51 students, so there are no other local high schools to compare it with. The most important finding is a sharp contrast between subjects: in 2025–2026, all-grades ELA proficiency was 19%, 27 points below Kansas, while math was 40%, just 1 point below the state.
Within the school, math is the clearest academic bright spot and ELA the biggest concern. For 10th graders, math proficiency was 40%, 3 points above Kansas; ELA was 19%, 22 points below. All-grades science was 33%, 5 points below the state, although 11th-grade science was 33%, 3 points above Kansas. Other measures are more favorable: the 2023–2024 graduation rate was 92%, compared with 90% statewide, and 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 9%, versus 18% statewide. The school’s absenteeism rate was 1 point higher than the Pike Valley district’s 8%.
ELA proficiency weakened considerably year over year, while math was essentially unchanged. All-grades ELA fell from 40% in 2024–2025 to 19% in 2025–2026, and the gap with Kansas widened by 23 points; math stayed at about 40%, while the state rate rose from about 39% to 41%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also shifted: Pike Valley High was at the 37th percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 63rd percentile the year before but up from the 11th percentile in 2023–2024. The school had a 6.2 student–teacher ratio and a 39% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–2025; these are useful context, not explanations for its results.
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