KAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.English Language Arts
81.6%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 57.2%
County avg 59.4%
+11.4pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
77.1%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 52.6%
County avg 56.6%
+2.4pp since 2023-24
Science
79.0%
State avg 41.6%
District avg 52.1%
County avg 55.4%
+4.4pp since 2023-24
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 77 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 79 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points and science scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.4%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Kansas's top 10%.
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 81.6% mean for English Language Arts at Prairie Elem?
It means about 81.6 percent of students tested at Prairie Elem 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.
