Summary:
The 67665 zip code area is home to 4 schools, including 2 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school. While the schools in this area face some challenges, such as high chronic absenteeism rates and significant socioeconomic disadvantages among the student population, there are also some standout performers worth highlighting.
Bickerdyke Elementary has shown improvement in its statewide ranking, moving from 286th out of 660 Kansas elementary schools in 2022-2023 to 448th out of 656 in 2024-2025. The school's English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency rates are above the Russell County and Kansas state averages, particularly in 3rd grade. In mathematics, Bickerdyke Elementary's 4th-grade proficiency rate of 45.83% is higher than the state average of 42%. In contrast, Russell High has seen its statewide ranking decline in recent years, from 237th out of 327 Kansas high schools in 2022-2023 to 271st out of 318 in 2023-2024, despite maintaining a relatively high 4-year graduation rate of 89.5% and a low dropout rate of 1.3%.
Across the schools in the 67665 zip code area, there are some common challenges, such as high rates of chronic absenteeism, which are significantly higher than the state average, and high percentages of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, ranging from 50.3% at Simpson Elementary to 57.48% at Russell High. However, the schools also demonstrate a range of student-teacher ratios, from 9.2 students per teacher at Russell High to 12.5 students per teacher at Simpson Elementary, and per-student spending that is in line with the state average.
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