Summary:
Zip code 67004 has one listed high school, Argonia High, which serves grades 6–12 and enrolls 84 students. With no other listed high school, families can compare its results with Kansas and across grades, rather than with a neighboring school. In 2025–26, Argonia’s all-grades math proficiency was 42%, just above the state’s 41%, while ELA was 35% versus 46% statewide and science was 25% versus 38%. The most important finding is that math was near the state rate, but ELA and especially science remained notably lower.
Within Argonia, results vary sharply by grade: grade 6 math was a standout at 82%, 41 points above the state rate, and grade 7 was also above Kansas in both ELA (56% versus 44%) and math (50% versus 38%). The clearest low results were grade 8 math, at 9% versus 40% statewide, and grade 10 ELA, at 14% versus 41%—gaps of 31 and 26 points, respectively. These contrasts mean the all-grades figures do not tell the whole story for students in a particular grade.
Recent results are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Argonia’s ELA proficiency fell 13 points, while math rose 8 points and science rose 11 points. Its simple average across the three subjects improved, narrowing the shortfall to Kansas from 9 points to 8 points, but that modest gain masks the ELA decline. SchoolDigger’s ranking also changed markedly, from 28th of 318 schools, in the 91st percentile with five stars in 2023–24, to 293rd of 340, in the 14th percentile with one star in 2025–26. Other measures offer a more positive comparison: graduation was 92% in 2023–24, 3 points above the state, and chronic absenteeism was 6% in 2025–26, 12 points below it. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 9.1, and 37% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch; these figures add context but do not explain the results.
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