Best Public Schools in Zip Code 67525

ZIP code 67525 has two listed high-school entries: Central Plains Adult Diploma Program, with 770 students, and Central Plains Junior Senior High School, with 152 students; only the Junior Senior High has reported test scores, so the data do not support an academic comparison between the two. In 2025–2026, the Junior Senior High was slightly above the state in English language arts (46.3% versus 45.9%) and 2 points above in math (43% versus 41%), but 14 points below in science (24% versus 38%). The clearest academic concern is the school’s much weaker science result.

Within the Junior Senior High, seventh- and eighth-grade ELA and math are the strongest reported grade-level results: seventh-grade ELA was 13 points above the state, and eighth-grade math was 10 points above. Results were weaker in upper grades: tenth-grade ELA was 7 points below the state, while eleventh-grade science was 18 points below. The Adult Diploma Program stands out for attendance rather than academics: its reported chronic absenteeism was 74%, compared with 18% at the Junior Senior High and 18% statewide. These figures make attendance a notable difference between the two listings, while the reported test results show uneven performance across grades and subjects.

Scores at the Junior Senior High improved in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, rising 11 and 15 points, respectively, but science fell 12 points. ELA moved from 9 points below the state to slightly above it, and math from 12 points below to 2 points above; science instead shifted from 5 points below to 14 points below. Despite the ELA and math gains, SchoolDigger gave the school one star and ranked it 246th of 340 Kansas schools, in the 28th percentile, down from the 42nd percentile in 2024–2025. The Junior Senior High’s reported student–teacher ratio is 9.8, and its 2024–2025 free/reduced-lunch rate is 39%; these are contextual figures, not evidence of what drives its results.