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What's the one class at Wamego High every student should take?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
24.2%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 54.3%
County avg 54.9%
District avg 54.3%
County avg 54.9%
Test scores
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KAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.Mathematics
28.9%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 54.0%
County avg 51.9%
District avg 54.0%
County avg 51.9%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.6%
District avg 54.3%
County avg 55.1%
District avg 54.3%
County avg 55.1%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
Rank: Wamego High places #143 of 262 Kansas high schools for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.9%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% 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 →
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 | 24.2% | 44.5% | 128 | 28.9% | 38.8% | 128 | N/A | 41.6% | N/A |
2-year history
All grades, all students. Wamego Kansas avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 24.2% | 54.3% | 54.9% | 44.5% |
| SY 2023-24 | 32.5% | 42.9% | 42.7% | 33.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 28.9% | 54.0% | 51.9% | 38.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 20.6% | 44.6% | 42.6% | 31.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | N/A | 54.3% | 55.1% | 41.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | 33.3% | 42.6% | 43.5% | 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 Wamego 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 24.2% mean for English Language Arts at Wamego High?
It means about 24.2 percent of students tested at Wamego 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.