Summary:
Zip code 67042 has one high school, El Dorado High, serving grades 9–12 with 543 students in the El Dorado district. The latest results show a mixed picture: graduation is slightly above the state rate, but chronic absenteeism is higher, and the school trails Kansas in every tested subject. The most important academic concern is science, where proficiency is 12% at the school versus 38% statewide, a 26-point gap.
ELA is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while science is its weakest: proficiency is 27% in ELA and 21% in math, compared with 46% and 41% statewide. The school is also below district results in all three subjects—by 6 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 15 in science. Because this is the only high school listed for the zip code, there is no local top-to-bottom comparison. SchoolDigger ranks El Dorado High 302nd of 340 Kansas schools, at the 11th percentile, with a 1-star rating.
Recent test-score trends differ by subject: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA proficiency rose from 24% to 27%, and its gap with the state narrowed by 1 point; math fell from 28% to 21%, while its state gap widened by 10 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also rose and then fell: the school moved from the 11th percentile in 2023–24 to the 23rd in 2024–25, then back to the 11th. Graduation is a relative bright spot at 91%, compared with 90% statewide and 80% in the district. By contrast, chronic absenteeism is 29%, versus 18% statewide and 24% in the district. The school’s student-teacher ratio is 14.4, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 62%; with no other local high school for comparison, these are context rather than evidence of what drives results.
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