Best Public Schools in Zip Code 67063

Zip code 67063 has two schools in the Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh district, serving students from prekindergarten through 12th grade: Hillsboro Elementary (PK–5) and Hillsboro Middle/High School (6–12). In 2025–26, both schools were above Kansas averages in all three reported all-grades subjects. Elementary scored 65% in English language arts (ELA), 62% in math and 53% in science; Middle/High scored 49%, 49% and 52%, respectively. The key takeaway is that the area’s results are broadly above state averages, but ELA and math performance differs substantially between the two schools.

Hillsboro Elementary leads the two-school comparison in every subject, with advantages of 16 percentage points in ELA, 13 points in math and 2 points in science. It also exceeds Kansas by 19 points in ELA, 21 in math and 15 in science. Middle/High is the lower-scoring school in the all-grades comparison, though it remains above Kansas in each subject—by 4 points in ELA, 8 in math and 14 in science. Its grade-level results vary: seventh-grade ELA and math are slightly below the state, while 11th-grade science is 56%, 26 points above Kansas. SchoolDigger ranks Middle/High 34th of 340 statewide (90th percentile) and Elementary 109th of 657 (83rd percentile).

Across the two available years of test scores, the schools’ average advantage over Kansas narrowed in ELA, from 13 to 11 points, and in math, from 18 to 14 points, but widened in science, from 11 to 14 points. That science gain reflects a falling state result; the schools’ own science scores were nearly unchanged or rose slightly. SchoolDigger’s rankings improved over three reported years for Middle/High, from the 80th to the 90th percentile, while Elementary rose from the 71st to the 83rd percentile. In 2024–25, Elementary also had a higher reported free/reduced-lunch rate (44% versus 35%) and a higher student-teacher ratio (12.7 versus 11); these are observations, not explanations for score differences. The schools serve different grade spans, and test-score trends cover only two years.