Summary:
Zip code 67867 has two schools serving 142 students: Montezuma Elementary serves pre-K through grade 5, and South Gray High serves grades 9–12. In the latest results, both schools were above Kansas in ELA, but both were well below the state in math; the clearest shared concern for families is math proficiency.
Montezuma Elementary stands out in science: 70% of students were proficient, 32 points above Kansas, compared with 21% at South Gray High, 17 points below the state. The elementary school also had the higher All Grades results in ELA (54% versus 50%) and math (24% versus 21%), though the schools serve different grades, so these are not like-for-like comparisons. Both schools were below Kansas’s 41% math proficiency rate: by 17 points at the elementary school and 20 points at the high school. Within the elementary school, results also varied by grade: third-grade math was 55%, while fifth-grade math was 10%, compared with 45% statewide. South Gray High’s other notable strength is graduation: its 2023–24 rate was 96%, versus 90% statewide.
Recent results moved in different directions. South Gray High improved from 35% to 50% in ELA and from 10% to 21% in math between 2024–25 and 2025–26. Montezuma Elementary’s ELA stayed about level at 54%, while its math result fell from 43% to 24%. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings give the elementary school the higher standing—50th percentile and 3 stars, versus the high school’s 36th percentile and 2 stars—but their three-year rankings moved oppositely: down 28 percentile points for the elementary school and up 20 for the high school. The elementary school has 83 students and a student–teacher ratio of 10; the high school has 59 students and a ratio of 5.8. Free/reduced-lunch eligibility was 31% and 41%, respectively, useful context but not an explanation for results.
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