Summary:
ZIP code 67846 has two high schools: Garden City High School, serving grades 9–12 with 1,946 students, and Unified School District 457 Virtual Academy, serving grades 7–12 with 76 students. In 2025–26, both schools’ All Grades proficiency results were below the state’s in ELA, math, and science. Across the two schools, the unweighted average was 25% in ELA, 13% in math, and 27% in science, compared with state results of 46%, 41%, and 38%; the clearest area-wide weakness is math, 28 percentage points below the state on average.
Garden City High School leads in ELA and math, while the Virtual Academy stands out in science. Garden City’s All Grades ELA result was 25% versus 24% at the Virtual Academy, a 1-point gap; in math, it was 19% versus 8%, an 11-point gap. Same-grade results also favor Garden City in 10th-grade ELA by 7 points and math by 13 points. The Virtual Academy’s 11th-grade science result was 36%, 14 points above Garden City’s and 6 points above the state’s. Non-test measures are mixed: Garden City’s graduation rate was 93% versus 83%, and its dropout rate was 1% versus 8%; the Virtual Academy had lower chronic absenteeism, 11% versus 19%.
Recent score trends also differ: Garden City’s ELA rose 3 points and its math was essentially flat, while the Virtual Academy fell 9 points in ELA and 6 in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26. The two-school average moved farther below state results in both subjects: the ELA gap widened from 17 to 22 points and the math gap from 22 to 28 points. SchoolDigger ranks Garden City 289th of 340 statewide (15th percentile) and the Virtual Academy 275th (19th percentile); both have one star. Garden City’s reported student–teacher ratio is 15.1 and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 70%; neither measure is supplied for the Virtual Academy. The Academy’s small enrollment of 76 means its reported results may be sensitive to the number of students tested.
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