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Does Shawnee Mission West High have enough mental health and stress support?
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English Language Arts
34.2%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 57.2%
County avg 59.4%
District avg 57.2%
County avg 59.4%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Kansas schools by score · Johnson County schools by score
KAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.Mathematics
29.5%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 52.6%
County avg 56.6%
District avg 52.6%
County avg 56.6%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.6%
District avg 52.1%
County avg 55.4%
District avg 52.1%
County avg 55.4%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
Rank: Shawnee Mission West High places #170 of 262 Kansas high schools, and #19 of 19 in Johnson County for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.5%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
By grade, SY 2024-25
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| All grades | 34.2% | 44.5% | 398 | 29.5% | 38.8% | 396 | N/A | 41.6% | N/A |
2-year history
All grades, all students. Shawnee Mission West Kansas avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 34.2% | 57.2% | 59.4% | 44.5% |
| SY 2023-24 | 22.9% | 45.7% | 47.6% | 33.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 29.5% | 52.6% | 56.6% | 38.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 15.7% | 44.0% | 47.8% | 31.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | N/A | 52.1% | 55.4% | 41.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | 23.2% | 39.7% | 43.0% | 32.4% |
Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Recent discussions
From the Shawnee Mission West High community.How to read these scores
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 34.2% mean for English Language Arts at Shawnee Mission West High?
It means about 34.2 percent of students tested at Shawnee Mission West 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.