Summary:
Zip code 67530 has one high school, Great Bend High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 923 students. Its available results show a substantial challenge compared with Kansas: in 2025–26, proficiency was lower in all three subjects, and chronic absenteeism was especially high. The most important concern is the combination of below-state achievement and chronic absenteeism: 34% of students were chronically absent, compared with 18% statewide.
There is no other high school in the ZIP code to rank above or below Great Bend High School, so local school-to-school differences cannot be assessed. Compared with Kansas, the school’s all-grades proficiency rates were 33% in ELA, 24% in math, and 26% in science—12, 17, and 13 percentage points below the state, respectively. Math is the largest concern, while grade 11 science is a relative bright spot: its 26% proficiency rate was 5 points below the state’s 30%. Absenteeism was also 13 points above the district rate of 21%. Other indicators are mixed: graduation was 88%, close to the state’s 90%, while the 2% dropout rate was about 1 point above the state.
Recent test-score trends do not show the school catching up with Kansas. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Great Bend High School’s ELA proficiency was essentially unchanged at 33%, while Kansas improved; the gap widened by 1 point. School math proficiency fell from 26% to 24% as the state rate rose from 39% to 41%, widening the gap by 5 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from the 21st percentile in 2023–24 to the 31st in 2024–25, then the 27th in 2025–26—6 percentile points higher overall, despite the recent subject-score pattern. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 13.5, and 62% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch; these figures provide context, not an explanation for the results.
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