Summary:
Zip code 67354 has one public school, Mound Valley Elementary, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 136 students. Its 2025–26 all-grades results are slightly above Kansas in English language arts (ELA) and math, but below Labette County in both subjects. The clearest strength is science: 63% of students were proficient, 24 percentage points above Kansas and 15 points above the district.
Science is the school’s strongest all-grades result, while ELA and math are more mixed: 47% were proficient in ELA, 1 point above Kansas but 6 points below the district; in math, 43% were proficient, 2 points above Kansas but 4 below the district. Grade-level results vary sharply. ELA proficiency ranges from 22% in seventh grade to 69% in third grade, while math ranges from 17% in seventh grade to 70% in eighth grade. Seventh-grade ELA is 22 points below the state rate, and seventh-grade math is 21 points below; in contrast, eighth-grade math is 30 points above the state. These differences mean the all-grades figures do not describe every grade equally well.
Recent trends show science improving against the state, but math losing most of its previous advantage. Science rose 6 percentage points from the prior year as Kansas fell 3, widening the school’s lead from 15 to 24 points. Math fell 11 points while Kansas rose 2, shrinking the school’s advantage from 15 points to 2; ELA edged up 1 point, with its state lead narrowing from 2 points to 1. Separately, SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile moved from 68 to 67 to 64 over three years, and its rank shifted from 210 of 653 to 238 of 657; its current rating is 3 stars. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 10.9, its free/reduced-lunch rate is 61%, and chronic absenteeism is 11%, compared with 12% in the district and 18% statewide.
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