Summary:
Zip code 67025 has one elementary school, Cheney Elementary, which serves prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolls 395 students. With no other schools in the list, parents can compare its results with Kansas and the Cheney district, but not with another local school. The most important finding is that Cheney’s 2025–2026 proficiency was well above the state in all three reported subjects.
There is no separate local top or bottom school: Cheney is the only school in the area. Its strongest comparison with Kansas was in science, where 64% of students were proficient versus 38% statewide, a 26-point advantage. In ELA, proficiency was 71% versus 46% statewide, a 25-point lead; in math, it was 64% versus 41%, a 23-point lead. ELA was Cheney’s highest score, while science gave it the largest advantage over the state. In grades 3–5, results were above state levels in both ELA and math; grade 5 had the smallest school–state gaps in each, at 16 points in ELA and 13 points in math, while grade 4 had the largest math gap, at 25 points.
Results improved slightly in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, rising 1 point in each, while science fell 5 points; Kansas science proficiency also declined, and Cheney’s advantage over the state narrowed in all three subjects. The school’s reported chronic absenteeism was 4%, below the district’s 11% and Kansas’s 18%. SchoolDigger ranked Cheney 57th of 657 schools in 2025–2026, up 14 places from 71st the previous year; its rating rose from 4 to 5 stars, though its 2023–2024 rank was higher, at 26th of 653. The student–teacher ratio was 14.8, and 34% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.
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