KAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.English Language Arts
49.0%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 55.1%
County avg 50.2%
+15.5pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
42.4%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 44.9%
County avg 43.6%
+28.3pp since 2023-24
Science
0.0%
State avg 41.6%
District avg 42.1%
County avg 50.5%
-20.9pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 42 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 0 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45, 39, and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 28 points and science scores are down about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
26.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is KAP?
KAP is the statewide standardized test administered by Kansas public schools.
What does "% Meeting + Exceeding" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 49.0% mean for English Language Arts at Circle High?
It means about 49.0 percent of students tested at Circle High performed at grade level or above on the KAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Kansas that year was 44.5%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Kansas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Kansas State Department of Education, Kansas Assessment Program (KAP). School-level All Students subgroup, scraped from the KSDE Report Card via Chrome MCP. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meeting + Exceeding" rate (Levels 3 + 4 on the 4-level KAP scale).
How often is it updated?
KAP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
