Best Middle Schools in Kansas for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in Kansas!

Every year, the Kansas State Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Kansas test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the KAP test scores by the Kansas State Department of Education. The most recent update was on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 164)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
201164001568	1	Indian Hills Middle	Public	7-8	6400 Mission Rd	Prairie Village	66208	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-0400	850	53	16.1	14.7%	711 (83.6%)	19 (2.2%)	73 (8.6%)	17 (2.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	30 (3.5%)	$9,197			$488			$8,709	99.4%	99.7%	0.33%
201200000994	2	Prairie Star Middle	Public	6-8	14201 Mission Road	Leawood	66224	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-5600	443	38	11.6	6.3%	311 (70.2%)	10 (2.3%)	15 (3.4%)	75 (16.9%)	4 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)	27 (6.1%)	$11,001			$554			$10,447	98.8%	98.3%	0.44%
200633000049	3	Patton Junior High	Public	6-9	1 Patton Loop Bldg 326	Fort Leavenworth	66027	Leavenworth County	Fort Leavenworth	No	No	No	No	(913) 651-7371	439	32	13.8	6.4%	287 (65.4%)	46 (10.5%)	61 (13.9%)	11 (2.5%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	32 (7.3%)	$11,266			$1,940			$9,326	98.2%	99.4%	1.28%
200000402114	4	Rock Creek Middle School	Public	5-8	9357 Flush Rd	Saint George	66535	Pottawatomie County	Rock Creek	No	No	No	Yes	(785) 494-8591	424	28	15.1	26.2%	391 (92.2%)	4 (0.9%)	23 (5.4%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	4 (0.9%)								97.6%	87.6%	9.99%
200564001130	5	Pleasant Ridge Middle	Public	6-8	32504 Easton Rd	Easton	66020	Leavenworth County	Easton	No	No	No	No	(913) 651-5522	137	9	15.5	29.9%	124 (90.5%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (5.8%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (2.9%)	$10,615			$2,481			$8,133	97.0%	63.0%	33.97%
201200001291	6	Pleasant Ridge Middle	Public	6-8	9000 W. 165th St.	Overland Park	66085	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-5700	608	45	13.4	7.2%	382 (62.8%)	14 (2.3%)	34 (5.6%)	150 (24.7%)	3 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	25 (4.1%)	$8,856			$110			$8,746	96.3%	98.6%	2.28%
200579001973	7	Kansas Connections Academy	Public, Virtual, Alternative	K-12	150 Wildcat Ave	Elkhart	67950	Morton County	Elkhart	No	No	Yes	No	(785) 205-6836	1,251	37	33.8	0.2%	813 (65.0%)	88 (7.0%)	233 (18.6%)	19 (1.5%)	3 (0.2%)	1 (0.1%)	94 (7.5%)	$4,894			$00			$4,894	95.7%	29.3%	66.45%
200320001710	8	Washburn Rural Middle School	Public	7-8	5620 SW 61st	Topeka	66619	Shawnee County	Auburn-Washburn	No	No	No	No	(785) 339-4300	943	80	11.7	35.6%	674 (71.5%)	45 (4.8%)	104 (11.0%)	19 (2.0%)	5 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	96 (10.2%)	$9,617			$586			$9,031	95.1%	67.1%	27.99%
201200000115	9	Blue Valley Middle	Public	6-8	5001 W. 163rd Terrace	Overland Park	66085	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-5100	562	43	13	15.5%	405 (72.1%)	25 (4.4%)	45 (8.0%)	49 (8.7%)	3 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	35 (6.2%)	$10,428			$511			$9,917	94.5%	94.8%	0.24%
200492000376	10	Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School	Public	4-8	140 S 4th	Clearwater	67026	Sedgwick County	Clearwater	No	No	No	No	(620) 584-2036	412	27	15.3	37.1%	361 (87.6%)	3 (0.7%)	35 (8.5%)	1 (0.2%)	6 (1.5%)	0 (0.0%)	6 (1.5%)	$9,298			$401			$8,896	93.9%	80.7%	13.24%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on KAP English Language Arts, KAP Mathematics, KAP Science test scores released by the Kansas State Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on October 8, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Kansas State Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Kansas State Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kansas State Department of Education.