Summary:
Zip code 67217 has one listed middle school, Truesdell Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 924 students. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates were below Kansas averages in every tested subject: 17% in English language arts (ELA) versus 46% statewide, 6% in math versus 41%, and 11% in science versus 38%. The most important concern is the size of those gaps: 29 percentage points in ELA, 35 in math, and 27 in science.
There are no other listed schools to rank against Truesdell; compared with Kansas, science was its closest subject and math its weakest. Within the school, seventh grade was the relative high point in both ELA and math, though results remained well below state levels: seventh-grade ELA was 19% versus 44% statewide, a 25-point gap, and math was 6.2% versus 37.8%, a 32-point gap. The math figure is shown to one decimal place to distinguish it from the school’s sixth- and eighth-grade results, which also round to 6%; those grades had gaps of 36 and 34 points, respectively.
Results improved modestly overall from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but progress toward the state was uneven. Truesdell’s ELA and science gaps narrowed by about 1 and 4 points, while its math gap widened by about 2 points; across the three subjects, the average gap narrowed by about 1 point. SchoolDigger places the school near the bottom of its statewide rankings in all three reported years: 359th of 362, 359th of 363, and 361st of 368, with 1st-, 1st-, and 2nd-percentile rankings and 0 stars each year. Chronic absenteeism was 41%, compared with 30% in the Wichita district and 18% statewide. The reported student-teacher ratio was 12.8, and 92% of students received free or reduced-price lunch; these provide context, not an explanation of the school’s results.
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