Summary:
Zip code 67450 has one listed elementary school, Central Plains Elementary School–Holyrood, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 229 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grade results were above Kansas in all three subjects. Most importantly, the school’s largest advantages were in science, at 59% versus 38% statewide (21 points higher), and mathematics, at 59% versus 41% (18 points higher); ELA was 54% versus 46% (9 points higher).
As the only school in the area list, Central Plains is both the top and bottom school locally; there is no second school to compare it with. Its grade-level results show a notable exception to its overall state advantage: fourth grade was below Kansas in ELA, 45% versus 50% (5 points lower), and mathematics, 41% versus 44% (3 points lower). The reported results for grades 3, 5, and 6, and grade 5 science, were above state results. SchoolDigger gives the school 4 stars and ranks it 177 of 657 schools, in the 73rd percentile, for 2025–2026; these are SchoolDigger ratings, not state ratings.
The school remained above Kansas in all three all-grade subjects, but its advantage narrowed from the prior year as its scores fell. ELA declined from 66% to 54%, narrowing the state lead from 22 to 9 points; mathematics fell from 64% to 59%, narrowing the lead from 25 to 18 points; and science fell from 74% to 59%, narrowing the lead from 32 to 21 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved from 77 of 656 schools (88th percentile) in 2024–2025 to 177 of 657 (73rd percentile) in 2025–2026. Other context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 11.8, a free/reduced-lunch rate of 33%, and chronic absenteeism of 5%, compared with 13% in the district and 18% statewide.
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