Best Public Schools in Zip Code 67851

ZIP code 67851 has five schools—two elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools—with 907 students combined; the Unified School District 363 Virtual Academy enrolls 10, while the others enroll 187 to 265 each. Scores are reported for four schools; Wiley Elementary has none supplied. The clearest overall takeaway is that even the leading reported all-grades results remain below state levels in both ELA and math.

Holcomb Elementary 3-5 leads reported all-grades ELA and math, with 43% proficient in ELA and 35% in math—16 and 11 percentage points above the next-highest results, both at Holcomb Middle. However, its all-grades results are still 3 points below the state in ELA and 6 points below in math. Holcomb High has the lowest reported all-grades ELA and math results, at 25% and 21%. It leads in science at 35%, while the Virtual Academy is lowest at 10%, a 25-point difference. Grade-level results add important nuance: Holcomb Elementary 3-5’s third-grade math is about even with the state, but its fifth-grade math is 24 points lower; Holcomb High’s 11th-grade science is 5 points above the state.

Results generally weakened from 2024–25 to 2025–26: the three non-virtual schools’ average ELA fell 4 points and average math fell 4 points, while state results rose; their average gaps widened from 9 to 15 points in ELA and from 8 to 14 in math. The comparable two-school science average fell 12 points as the state result fell 3, widening the average gap from 5 to 13 points. SchoolDigger ranks the Holcomb district 241st of 268 in Kansas, at the 10th percentile with one star; school percentiles are 29 for Holcomb High, 12 for Holcomb Middle and 28 for Holcomb Elementary 3-5. Other indicators vary: Holcomb High’s chronic absenteeism is 54%, versus 18% statewide, despite a 96% graduation rate; the Virtual Academy’s reported dropout rate is 60%. Ratios and free/reduced-lunch rates offer context, not explanations: among the four schools with those data, ratios range from 10 to 12.3 students per teacher and lunch rates from 47% to 55%.