Tonganoxie Elem, Tonganoxie KS - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Tonganoxie Elem

Tonganoxie Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in the Tonganoxie school district, a single small city in Leavenworth County within the Kansas City metropolitan area. The school is the only elementary in the district, drawing from a town that is growing steadily. The community describes itself as offering a slice of country living while sitting within a reasonable drive of Kansas City, Lawrence, and Topeka. The enrollment is large for an elementary school serving these grades, and the student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population in the single-digit percentage range and very small shares of Asian, Black, multiracial, and other groups. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.

On the Kansas Assessment Program, the school’s results across tested grades show a pattern that parents will want to weigh. In math, third and fourth graders posted proficiency rates that were lower than the fifth-grade rate. In English language arts, the third- and fifth-grade rates were higher than the fourth-grade rate, and fifth grade reached a level where roughly half of students met the proficiency benchmark. In science, which is tested only in fifth grade, the proficiency rate was below the half mark. Kansas changed its cut scores for these assessments, which means direct comparisons to prior years are not reliable, but the current numbers place the school’s overall proficiency below the midpoint when set against other districts in Leavenworth County.

Because this is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report. The data does not include information on chronic absenteeism, discipline, staffing ratios, or course access, so a parent looking for those details would need to ask the school directly. No program offerings such as gifted education, specialized magnet themes, or career pathways were available in the data, and the school is not a charter or a magnet school.

The town of Tonganoxie has a compact historic downtown with a city hall that moved to Fourth Street in recent years, a public library, parks and trails, and a water park that replaced an older pool. The school’s mascot is the Braves, and the building sits on a campus separate from the middle school and high school. Housing values in the area are above the state benchmark, and rents are moderate relative to incomes. The district did not have any parent-relevant changes flagged in publicly available sources, and the community profile mentions that a major proposed chicken processing plant was cancelled after resident opposition, reflecting a community that has pushed back against large industrial development while continuing to grow.

A parent considering Tonganoxie Elementary should know that the school serves a large student body in a growing community with solid civic infrastructure. The academic results on state tests are in a range that suggests room for improvement, particularly in math at the lower elementary grades and in fifth-grade science. For a family that values a small-town Kansas setting with suburban growth patterns and wants a single elementary school feeding into a unified district, this school fits that description. A family focused on high proficiency rates across the board may want to investigate what academic supports and enrichment opportunities are available in the building.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 435%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 41%

even with state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 348%

School 48% · District 48%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 443%

School 43% · District 43%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 45%

even with state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income35%Higher-income54%19 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income29%Higher-income47%18 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income34%Higher-income60%26 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income19%Higher-income44%25 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income34%7 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income18%Higher-income51%33 pp gap