Summary:
ZIP code 67502 has one middle school, Prairie Hills Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 532 students in the Buhler district. Its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism rate was 9%, below the state’s 18% but above the district’s 7%. Most importantly, Prairie Hills’ all-grade proficiency rates were above the state in ELA, math and science, after being below it in all three subjects the previous year.
Prairie Hills is the only school in the local list, so there is no area peer to identify as a top or bottom performer. Its overall 2025–2026 proficiency was 49% in ELA, 45% in math and 42% in science—3, 4 and 4 percentage points above state rates, respectively. Results varied by grade: eighth-grade math was the strongest state-relative result, at 51% proficient versus 40% statewide, a 12-point advantage. Sixth graders were also ahead of the state in ELA by 11 points and math by 7; eighth-grade ELA was ahead by 7 points. Seventh grade was the exception: ELA was 2 points below the state and math was 1 point below.
Results improved across all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Prairie Hills gained 6 points in ELA, 7 in math and 3 in science. SchoolDigger ranks the school 119th of 368, in the 68th percentile, with 3 stars. That is a rebound of 42 places from the prior year, though still 8 places below its 2023–2024 rank. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 12.8 and a 43% free/reduced-lunch rate. These figures describe the school but do not provide a comparison with similar local schools.
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