Summary:
Zip code 67335 has two schools in the Cherryvale district: Lincoln Central Elementary, which serves through grade 6, and Thayer Schools, which serves through grade 8. Across the area, the latest all-grades results are strongest in science, and Thayer leads Lincoln in all three subjects. The clearest overall takeaway is that Thayer’s all-grades results are higher, while Lincoln is slightly below the state in math.
Thayer Schools is the area’s all-grades leader: it reports 58% proficiency in English language arts (ELA), 57% in math, and 64% in science, compared with 48%, 40%, and 57% at Lincoln Central Elementary. Thayer’s leads are 11 points in ELA, 17 in math, and 7 in science. It is also above state results by 13, 16, and 25 points, respectively; Lincoln is 2 points above the state in ELA and 18 points above in science, but 1 point below in math. Grade-level results add an important exception: Lincoln leads by 49 points in third-grade ELA and 6 points in third-grade math, and by 7 points in fifth-grade science. The schools serve different grade spans, so grade-matched results offer a more direct comparison.
Recent changes favor Thayer, though improvement was not shared evenly. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, its results rose 6 points in ELA, 13 in math, and 15 in science; Lincoln’s ELA and math fell 1 and 2 points, while its science score rose 5 points. The two-school averages increased in all three subjects, with the largest rise in science, but Thayer’s gains drove much of that progress. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile for Thayer climbed from 54 to 74 over three years; Lincoln’s rose from 41 to 47, after slipping from 50 in 2024–25. Staffing ratios are similar—11.4 students per teacher at Lincoln and 11.6 at Thayer—and reported free/reduced-lunch rates are 65% and 58%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism is lower at Thayer, at 7% versus Lincoln’s 13%; both are below the state’s 18%.
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