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Southwest Elem · Pratt, KS
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KAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.
English Language Arts
56.2%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 47.5%
County avg 46.6%
+15.9pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
40.4%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 41.4%
County avg 43.3%
-1.9pp since 2023-24
Science
N/A
State avg 41.6%
District avg 51.2%
County avg 54.4%

What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade ALL56.2%44.5%8940.4%38.8%89N/A41.6%N/A

2-year history

All grades, all students. Southwest   Kansas avg

English Language Arts

34402023-2445562024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2556.2%47.5%46.6%44.5%
SY 2023-2440.3%36.3%37.3%33.7%

Mathematics

32422023-2439402024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2540.4%41.4%43.3%38.8%
SY 2023-2442.3%34.4%36.6%31.8%

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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 56.2% mean for English Language Arts at Southwest Elem?
It means about 56.2 percent of students tested at Southwest 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.

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