The top reported proficiency rate is 63% in Science. The lowest is 53% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on St George Elem
St. George Elementary serves pre-kindergarten through fourth grade in the small, growing town of St. George, Kansas. The school is part of the Rock Creek district, which serves students from St. George and the neighboring community of Westmoreland. The school occupies a newer campus at the corner of Military Trail Road and Blackjack Road, having relocated there in recent years. Its downtown is a separate walk, with civic life centered on First Street, but the school itself sits on the outskirts of town.
The student body is predominantly white, with small shares of Hispanic students and students of two or more races. Roughly one in four students qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that positions the school with relatively low economic need compared to national averages. The school does not report counts of students with individualized education plans or English learners in the available data, but because it is an early-elementary school serving grades where testing begins in third grade, those populations may be present but not broken out in the data available here.
State assessment results from the Kansas Assessment Program are available for third and fourth graders in English language arts and math, and for fifth graders in science from a prior year. On the most recent tests, the school’s proficiency rates in both subjects and at both tested grade levels cluster around the midpoint of the range among districts in Pottawatomie County. When the school’s results across all tested subjects and grades are combined into a single index, St. George Elementary places in the top quartile relative to other districts in the county. Fourth-grade reading proficiency was the strongest single result, with a majority of students meeting or exceeding the state standard. Third-grade math proficiency was lower than the other tested grade-subject combinations, a point a family may want to discuss with the school. Science results from an earlier year for fifth graders showed a majority of students proficient, though those tests predate a change in cut scores that makes direct comparisons uncertain.
Because St. George Elementary serves only through fourth grade, it has no graduation rate of its own. Students in the Rock Creek district continue to Rock Creek Middle School and then Rock Creek High School, which is located on a campus roughly halfway between St. George and Westmoreland. The district did not have any recent bond elections, curriculum overhauls, or property-tax shifts reported in available sources, so families looking for major district-level changes in the last few years will not find one documented here.
Housing in St. George has appreciated steadily. The typical home value is higher than the state average, and by a narrow margin above the national average. The town has added new subdivisions such as Twin Oaks and Powercat Ridge, and the elementary school relocation itself signals investment in the community. For a family considering a move, this combination of a newish school building, a growing town within commuting distance of Manhattan and its employment base at Kansas State University and Fort Riley, and a district that consolidates two small communities into one high school, creates a particular profile. The school is small enough that a parent would know the staff, and the academic results suggest a solid floor without being the highest-performing option in the county.
The school's testing participation rates were not reported in the data, so a family may want to confirm with the school office whether all students took the assessments in the most recent year. The absence of special-population counts also means that if your child receives specialized support, you would want to ask directly about class sizes, staffing ratios, and how the school structures its early-intervention services. For the typical family looking at this school, the takeaway is straightforward: a compact, largely homogeneous elementary school in a town that is growing but still small, with academic performance that sits comfortably within the range of its county peers, and no recent turbulence at the district level to worry about.
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