Summary:
Zip code 67410 has two high schools: Abilene High School, serving grades 9–12 with 443 students, and Abilene Virtual School, serving grades 6–12 with 24; they differ in size and grade span, so comparisons across all grades are not fully like-for-like. The most important finding is that Abilene High leads in every all-grades subject, but its clearest advantage over Kansas is in math: it is above the state in math while below in ELA and science.
Abilene High is the stronger performer overall: its 2025–26 proficiency was 43% in ELA, 45% in math, and 31% in science, compared with 18%, 18%, and 25% at Abilene Virtual. The school-to-school gaps were 25 points in ELA, 26 in math, and 6 in science. Against Kansas, Abilene High was 4 points above in all-grades math, but 3 points below in ELA and 7 below in science; its grade 10 results were more encouraging, with ELA 2 points and math 8 points above the state. In grade 11 science, Abilene High was 31% versus 21% at the virtual school and 30% statewide. The virtual school was below Kansas in all three all-grades subjects.
Recent results at Abilene High moved in opposite directions: ELA fell 10 points from 2024–25, while math rose 10 points. SchoolDigger places Abilene High at rank 117 of 340 Kansas schools, in the 66th percentile for 2025–26, down from the 74th percentile the year before but up from the 47th percentile in 2023–24. Other indicators also differ: Abilene High’s 2023–24 graduation rate was 93%, versus 90% statewide, while the virtual school’s 2024–25 dropout rate was 13%, compared with 1% statewide and 0% at Abilene High. Chronic absenteeism shows a contrasting pattern: it was 6% at the virtual school, below the state’s 18%, but 25% at Abilene High. Abilene High’s reported student-teacher ratio is 10.7, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 43%, compared with 17% at the virtual school; these are contextual differences, not explanations for outcomes.
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