Summary:
ZIP code 67439 has one elementary school, Ellsworth Elementary, serving prekindergarten through third grade and enrolling 188 students in the Ellsworth district. With no other listed schools, families have no local school-to-school comparison here. Most importantly, Ellsworth’s 2025–2026 results were well above Kansas figures in both English language arts (ELA) and math.
Ellsworth Elementary is both the top and only school in this list, so there is no local bottom-ranked school to compare it with. For all grades, 78% of students met the ELA standard, compared with 46% statewide—a 32-point advantage; in math, 65% met the standard, versus 41% statewide, a 24-point advantage. Third-grade results were also above the state: 78% in ELA, 27 points higher, and 65% in math, 23 points higher. The school’s all-grade results were also above the district’s: 78% versus 54% in ELA and 65% versus 59% in math.
Results improved year over year, especially in ELA: the school’s ELA score rose from 63% in 2024–2025 to 78% in 2025–2026, while math increased from 63% to 65%. Its ELA advantage over the state grew from 19 to 32 points; the math advantage remained about 25 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history is less favorable: the school went from rank 89 of 667, in the 87th percentile with 4 stars, in 2018–2019 to rank 338 of 668, in the 49th percentile with 2 stars, in 2021–2022. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 12, a 45% free/reduced-lunch rate, and 4% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, compared with 7% in the district and 18% statewide. These measures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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