Summary:
Zip code 67601 has one listed middle school, Hays Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 726 students in the Hays district. Its latest results show strengths across all three tested subjects: in 2025–2026, about 50% of students were proficient in English Language Arts, 50% in math, and 44% in science, compared with about 46%, 41%, and 38% statewide. The school’s simple average across subjects was 7 points above Kansas’s. The most important takeaway is that the school exceeded state results in every subject, with its largest advantage in math.
With just one school in the list, there is no top or bottom school to compare within the ZIP code. Within the school’s results, eighth-grade math stands out most: proficiency was 55%, 15 points above the state’s eighth-grade result. The school also exceeded the district in math by 1 point and science by 5 points, but its English Language Arts result was 4 points below the district. It was still 4 points above Kansas in ELA, though, making that subject a relative weakness rather than a below-state result. Chronic absenteeism was about 18%, close to the state’s 18% and below the district’s 21%.
Results improved notably in math and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while ELA dipped: math rose 11 points and science 7 points, while ELA fell 2 points. The state comparison shifted in the same direction: the school’s math advantage widened by 8 points and its science position improved by 10 points, while its ELA advantage narrowed by 3 points. SchoolDigger’s standing also improved, from rank 133 of 362 schools and the 63rd percentile in 2023–2024 to rank 83 of 368 and the 77th percentile in 2025–2026; its star rating rose from 3 to 4. The recent pattern is stronger math and science, with ELA the subject to watch.
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