Best Public Schools in Zip Code 67853

Zip code 67853 has two small schools in Ingalls: Ingalls Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 111 students, and Ingalls High School/Junior High, serving grades 6–12 with 114 students. In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades results were above Kansas’s figures in ELA, math, and science, although the size of the advantage varied considerably. The most important finding is that elementary math is the notable weak spot: its overall result was only 3 points above the state, and fifth-grade math was below it.

Ingalls High School/Junior High stands out most in science and math: its 2025–26 results were 61% in science, 23 points above Kansas, and 57% in math, 16 points above. Ingalls Elementary was strongest relative to the state in ELA and science, scoring 62% and 54%, respectively—about 16 points above Kansas in each. Its math result was 44%, just 3 points above the state. Grade-level results show the sharpest contrast: secondary seventh-grade math was 31 points above Kansas, while elementary fifth-grade math was 7 points below. The schools serve different grades, so their overall scores are not a like-for-like ranking.

Results changed in different directions from 2024–25 to 2025–26: the secondary school improved 5 points in ELA but fell 6 points in both math and science; the elementary school gained 6 points in science and declined 7 in ELA and 3 in math. Across the six school-subject comparisons, the average advantage over Kansas narrowed by about 2 points, from 16 to 15. SchoolDigger’s school ranking percentiles also declined over three years, from 96 to 91 for the secondary school and from 82 to 66 for the elementary school; separately, it ranks the Ingalls district 15th of 268, in the 94th percentile, with five stars. Both schools had lower chronic absenteeism than the state’s 18%: 10% at the secondary school and 7% at the elementary school. Student–teacher ratios were 10.1 and 11.2, respectively; reported free/reduced-lunch rates were 37% and 45%, respectively, as contextual figures.