Summary:
Zip code 67642 has one elementary school, Hill City Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 6 and enrolling 212 students; in 2025–26, its proficiency rates were above Kansas’s in all three reported subjects, the most important overall finding for families.
With no other school listed, Hill City is the only local option represented—not a top or bottom performer proven against nearby schools. Its strongest all-grades result was ELA, where 70% of students were proficient, compared with 56% in math and 58% in science. Hill City was ahead of Kansas by 24 percentage points in ELA, 15 in math and 20 in science; compared with Graham County, it was ahead by 16 points in ELA, 9 in math and 14 in science. Chronic absenteeism was 4%, below the district’s 12% and Kansas’s 18%; the reported free/reduced-price-lunch rate was 67%.
Results improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in all three subjects: ELA rose 12 percentage points, math 4 and science 13. Hill City’s lead over Kansas widened most in science, from 4 to 20 points; its math lead grew more modestly, from 13 to 15 points. Grade 4 had the highest listed ELA and math scores, while grade 6 had the lowest; even so, grade 6 remained above the state, by 8 points in ELA and 4 in math. SchoolDigger’s statewide rank rose from 276th of 653 schools in 2023–24 to 112th of 657 in 2025–26, and its reported percentile increased from 58 to 83. The student-teacher ratio was 10.6. Because only one school is listed, these figures cannot show how schools in the ZIP code compare with one another.
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