Summary:
ZIP code 67070 has one listed elementary school, South Barber Pre-K-6, serving pre-K through grade 6 and enrolling 111 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades results were above Kansas in ELA, math and science, and chronic absenteeism was lower than the state rate. The most important caveat for parents is that these overall results mask a sharp grade-level exception: sixth-grade ELA was well below the state.
Because it is the only school listed, South Barber is both the local top and bottom by default, not through comparison with another area school. Its strongest state comparison was science: 65% of students met the standard, versus 38% statewide, a 27-point advantage. Math was 55% versus 41%, a 14-point advantage; ELA was 48% versus 46%, a 2-point advantage. Grade results vary: fourth- and fifth-grade math were 22 and 20 points above Kansas, while third-grade math was 7 points below. Fourth- and fifth-grade ELA were 8 points above the state, but sixth-grade ELA was 19 points below. SchoolDigger ranked the school 234th of 657 statewide, at the 64th percentile, and gave it 3 stars.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA fell 13 points and math fell 2, while science rose 3. South Barber’s advantage over Kansas narrowed by 15 points in ELA and 5 in math, but widened by 6 in science. SchoolDigger’s rating also declined from 4 stars in 2024–25, when the school ranked 122nd of 656, to 3 stars in 2025–26. Other reported context includes a student-teacher ratio of 13.8 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 57%; neither explains the results. Chronic absenteeism was 4%, compared with 15% for the district and 18% statewide.
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