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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Topeka High administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
35.1%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 29.9%
County avg 39.7%
District avg 29.9%
County avg 39.7%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Kansas schools by score · Shawnee County schools by score
KAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.Mathematics
21.1%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 22.3%
County avg 34.5%
District avg 22.3%
County avg 34.5%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.6%
District avg 26.2%
County avg 36.9%
District avg 26.2%
County avg 36.9%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
Rank: Topeka High places #212 of 262 Kansas high schools, and #7 of 9 in Shawnee County for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.9%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 | 35.1% | 44.5% | 353 | 21.1% | 38.8% | 356 | N/A | 41.6% | N/A |
2-year history
All grades, all students. Topeka Kansas avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 35.1% | 29.9% | 39.7% | 44.5% |
| SY 2023-24 | 20.0% | 21.3% | 29.8% | 33.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 21.1% | 22.3% | 34.5% | 38.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 11.8% | 18.8% | 29.0% | 31.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | N/A | 26.2% | 36.9% | 41.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | 17.1% | 20.1% | 27.9% | 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 Topeka 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 35.1% mean for English Language Arts at Topeka High?
It means about 35.1 percent of students tested at Topeka 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.