Summary:
Zip code 67056 has one high school, Halstead High, serving grades 8–12 with 240 students, so there is no local school-to-school comparison. Its latest results are mixed: mathematics and science proficiency were slightly above Kansas averages, but English language arts (ELA) was well below. The clearest concern for families is ELA, where 38% of students were proficient compared with 46% statewide—a gap of 8 percentage points.
As the only school listed, Halstead High is neither a local leader nor a trailer; its strongest subject result relative to Kansas was science, at 41% versus 38%, while ELA was its weakest at 38% versus 46%. Mathematics was 42% compared with 41% statewide. Grade-level results add detail: 11th-grade science was 42% versus 30% statewide, 12 points higher, while 10th-grade ELA was 38% versus 41%, 3 points lower. Graduation is another strength: the 2023–2024 rate was 97%, 7 points above Kansas and equal to the Halstead district. However, chronic absenteeism was 22%, compared with 18% statewide and 17% in the district.
Recent academic movement makes the ELA gap especially worth asking about. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA proficiency at Halstead High fell from 46% to 38%, while the state rate rose from 44% to 46%; the school’s position shifted from 2 points above Kansas to 8 points below. Math declined from 44% to 42%, while Kansas improved from 39% to 41%, narrowing the school’s advantage to 1 point. SchoolDigger ranked the school 116th of 318 in 2023–2024, 75th of 332 in 2024–2025, and 104th of 340 in 2025–2026; its percentile rose from 64 to 69 over that span, despite the recent slip. Other context includes a 10.7 student–teacher ratio and a 39% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–2025, with no comparable local school set to show how those figures relate to results.
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