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The highest-performing public middle schools in reading in Kansas

Across Kansas, 192 public middle schools are ranked here, ranked by the share of students meeting or exceeding the state reading and writing standard. Indian Hills Middle leads the list at 76.5%, against a median of 40.0% across the ranked schools.

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Schools ranked

192

Kansas

Top % Proficient (Reading)

76.5%

Median % Proficient (Reading)

40.0%

BEST IN READING · KANSAS

#	School	City	District	Level	Students	% Proficient (Reading)
1	Indian Hills Middle	Prairie Village, KS	Shawnee Mission Pub Sch	Middle	879	76.5%
2	Aubry Bend Middle School	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	792	76.5%
3	Prairie Star Middle	Leawood, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	438	76.4%
4	Lakewood Middle	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	537	71.9%
5	Leawood Middle	Leawood, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	493	69.3%
6	Pleasant Ridge Middle	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	581	69.2%
7	Harmony Middle	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	536	68.5%
8	Prairie Trail Middle School	Olathe, KS	Olathe	Middle	709	67.6%
9	Patton Jr High	Fort Leavenworth, KS	Fort Leavenworth	Middle	389	67.1%
10	Lexington Trails Middle School	De Soto, KS	De Soto	Middle	393	66.2%
11	Forest Spring Middle School	Spring Hill, KS	Spring Hill	Middle	296	66.0%
12	Andover Middle School	Andover, KS	Andover	Middle	773	65.8%
13	Woodland Spring Middle School	Olathe, KS	Spring Hill	Middle	333	65.8%
14	Louisburg Middle	Louisburg, KS	Louisburg	Middle	378	65.0%
15	Overland Trail Middle	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	540	64.8%
16	Blue Valley Middle	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	593	64.4%
17	Oxford Middle	Overland Park, KS	Blue Valley	Middle	620	63.7%
18	Hesston Middle	Hesston, KS	Hesston	Middle	273	63.2%
19	Cheney Middle School 6-8	Cheney, KS	Cheney	Middle	193	62.2%
20	Frontier Trail Middle School	Olathe, KS	Olathe	Middle	693	61.0%
21	Andover Central Middle School	Andover, KS	Andover	Middle	642	60.4%
22	Basehor-Linwood Middle School	Basehor, KS	Basehor-Linwood	Middle	679	59.3%
23	Indian Woods Middle	Overland Park, KS	Shawnee Mission Pub Sch	Middle	809	58.8%
24	California Trail Middle School	Olathe, KS	Olathe	Middle	584	58.6%
25	Monticello Trails Middle School	Shawnee, KS	De Soto	Middle	655	58.0%
26	Rock Creek Middle School	St. George, KS	Rock Creek	Middle	415	57.9%
27	Mission Trail Middle School	Olathe, KS	Olathe	Middle	680	57.3%
28	South Central Middle School	Protection, KS	Comanche County	Middle	113	56.8%
29	Maize South Intermediate School	Wichita, KS	Maize	Middle	431	55.8%
30	Lawrence Southwest Middle School	Lawrence, KS	Lawrence	Middle	641	55.6%
31	Wamego Middle School	Wamego, KS	Wamego	Middle	385	55.4%
32	Susan B Anthony Middle School	Manhattan, KS	Manhattan-Ogden	Middle	775	55.4%
33	Maize South Middle School	Wichita, KS	Maize	Middle	501	54.2%
34	Fort Riley Middle School	Fort Riley, KS	Geary County Schools	Middle	541	53.3%
35	Chisholm Trail Middle School	Olathe, KS	Olathe	Middle	569	53.0%
36	Frontenac Jr. High	Frontenac, KS	Frontenac Public Schools	Middle	219	52.8%
37	Discovery Intermediate School	Goddard, KS	Goddard	Middle	502	52.6%
38	Trailridge Middle	Shawnee, KS	Shawnee Mission Pub Sch	Middle	752	52.2%
39	Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School	Clearwater, KS	Clearwater	Middle	405	51.9%
40	Summit Trail Middle School	Olathe, KS	Olathe	Middle	576	51.9%
41	Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School	Goddard, KS	Goddard	Middle	625	51.7%
42	Hays Middle School	Hays, KS	Hays	Middle	726	51.5%
43	Abilene Middle School	Abilene, KS	Abilene	Middle	319	51.3%
44	Jefferson West Middle	Meriden, KS	Jefferson West	Middle	276	50.5%
45	Osage City Middle School	Osage City, KS	Osage City	Middle	134	50.4%
46	Lansing Middle 6-8	Lansing, KS	Lansing	Middle	580	49.1%
47	Circle Middle School	Benton, KS	Circle	Middle	312	48.8%
48	Chapman Middle School	Chapman, KS	Chapman	Middle	250	48.6%
49	Concordia Middle	Concordia, KS	Concordia	Middle	177	48.6%
50	Piper Middle	Kansas City, KS	Piper-Kansas City	Middle	680	48.5%

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