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Award Winners:  2020  | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025

QUANTITATIVE MEASURES

 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION

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  GOLD

  • Atchison USD 409
  • Attica USD 511
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Central USD 462
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Crest USD 479
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Dighton USD 482
  • Doniphan West USD 111
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Easton USD 449
  • Elk Valley USD 283
  • Ell-Saline USD 307
  • Eureka USD 389
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Hugoton USD 210
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • La Crosse USD 395
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Morris County USD 417
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Ness City USD 303
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Northern Valley USD 212
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Oberlin USD 294
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Riverside USD 114
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Sedgwick USD 439
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • Solomon USD 393
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Sublette USD 374
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Udall USD 463
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Washington County USD 108
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Western Plains USD 106
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

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  SILVER

  • Andover USD 385
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Barber County North USD 254
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Girard USD 248
  • Hays USD 489
  • Herington USD 487
  • Hoxie Community USD 412
  • Inman USD 448
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Kingman-Norwich USD 331
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Maize USD 266
  • Marais Des Cygnes Valley USD 456
  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Stafford USD 349
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Wellington USD 353
  • West Franklin USD 287

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  BRONZE

  • Altoona-Midway USD 387
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Canton-Galva USD 419
  • Chanute USD 413
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Colby USD 315
  • Derby USD 260
  • Ellis USD 388
  • Emporia USD 253
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Graham County USD 281
  • Greeley County USD 200
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Holton USD 336
  • Iola USD 257
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Leoti USD 467
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Northeast USD 246
  • Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton USD 322
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Oskaloosa USD 341
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Russell County USD 407
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Syracuse USD 494
  • Valley Center USD 262

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  COPPER

  • Garden City USD 457
  • Independence USD 446
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Liberal USD 480
  • Thunder Ridge USD 110
  • Twin Valley USD 240

 

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ACADEMICALLY PREPARED FOR POSTSECONDARY

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  GOLD

 

  • Branches Academy
  • Brookridge Day School

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  SILVER

  • Andover USD 385
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Cheney USD 268
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Fort Leavenworth USD 207
  • Haviland USD 474
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Little River USD 444
  • Louisburg USD 416
  • Riley County USD 378
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Valley Heights USD 498
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

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  BRONZE

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Baxter Springs USD 508
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Central Plains USD 112
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Dighton USD 482
  • Dodge City Catholic Diocese
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellis USD 388
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hoxie Community USD 412
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Inman USD 448
  • Jefferson West USD 340
  • Kiowa County USD 422
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Leoti USD 467
  • Lutheran Schools, Topeka
  • Marais Des Cygnes Valley USD 456
  • Minneola USD 219
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Spearville USD 381
  • Spring Hill USD 230
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Weskan USD 242

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  COPPER

  • Argonia USD 359
  • Ashland USD 220
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Central USD 462
  • Centre USD 397
  • Chaparral USD 361
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chautauqua County USD 286
  • Cherryvale USD 447
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Circle USD 375
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Clearwater USD 264
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Conway Springs USD 356
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Douglass USD 396
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Flinthills USD 492
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Galena USD 499
  • Gardner Edgerton USD 231
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Graham County USD 281
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hodgeman County USD 227
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Kingman-Norwich USD 331
  • La Crosse USD 395
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lawrence USD 497
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Logan USD 326
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Maize USD 266
  • Manhattan-Ogden USD 383
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Montezuma USD 371
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Ness City USD 303
  • North Jackson USD 335
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Osage City USD 420
  • Oxford USD 358
  • Paola USD 368
  • Paradise USD 399
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Prairie View USD 362
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Remington-Whitewater USD 206
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Sedgwick USD 439
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Stockton USD 271
  • Sublette USD 374
  • Troy USD 429
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Udall USD 463
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Washington County USD 108

 

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 POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS

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  GOLD

  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

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  SILVER

  • Andover USD 385
  • Attica USD 511
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Colby USD 315
  • Crest USD 479
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Doniphan West USD 111
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Hoxie Community USD 412
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Inman USD 448
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Maize USD 266
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Waconda USD 272

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  BRONZE

  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellis USD 388
  • Ell-Saline USD 307
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Greeley County USD 200
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Kingman-Norwich USD 331
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Louisburg USD 416
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Ness City USD 303
  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Norton Community USD 211
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Satanta USD 507
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Thunder Ridge USD 110
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Washington County USD 108

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  COPPER

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Barber County North USD 254
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Canton-Galva USD 419
  • Chanute USD 413
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Ellinwood USD 355
  • Emporia USD 253
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Goodland USD 352
  • Graham County USD 281
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Holton USD 336
  • Independence USD 446
  • Iola USD 257
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Kismet-Plains USD 483
  • La Crosse USD 395
  • Leoti USD 467
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Macksville USD 351
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Meade USD 226
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Morris County USD 417
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Oberlin USD 294
  • Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton USD 322
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Sedgwick USD 439
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Sublette USD 374
  • Syracuse USD 494
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Weskan USD 242

 

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QUALITATIVE MEASURES

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH

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  SILVER

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Derby USD 260
  • Fowler USD 225
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Kansas City USD 500
  • Parsons USD 503
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Topeka USD 501
  • Turner-Kansas City USD 202

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  BRONZE

  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Circle USD 375
  • Dodge City USD 443
  • Iola USD 257
  • Leavenworth USD 453
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Maize USD 266
  • Mulvane USD 263
  • Salina USD 305
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306

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  COPPER

  • Abilene USD 435
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Colby USD 315
  • Fort Scott USD 234
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Hutchinson USD 308
  • Independence USD 446
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Liberal USD 480
  • Osage City USD 420
  • Perry USD 343
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • South Brown County USD 430
  • Spring Hill USD 230
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Valley Heights USD 498
  • Washington County USD 108
  • Western Plains USD 106

 

 

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KINDERGARTEN READINESS

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  SILVER

  • Hutchinson USD 308
  • Leavenworth USD 453
  • Wichita USD 259

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  BRONZE

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Colby USD 315
  • Derby USD 260
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goodland USD 352
  • Haven USD 312
  • Haysville USD 261
  • Iola USD 257
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Perry USD 343
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Turner-Kansas City USD 202
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Washington County USD 108

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  COPPER

  • Buhler USD 313
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Valley Heights USD 498

 

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 INDIVIDUAL PLAN OF STUDY

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  GOLD

  • South Barber USD 255

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 SILVER

  • Clay County USD 379
  • Colby USD 315
  • Derby USD 260
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Maize USD 266
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306

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  BRONZE

  • Augusta USD 402
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Hutchinson USD 308
  • Kansas City USD 500
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Salina USD 305
  • Solomon USD 393
  • Spring Hill USD 230
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Wichita USD 259

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 COPPER

  • Barnes USD 223
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Haven USD 312
  • Independence USD 446
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Northeast USD 246
  • Paola USD 368
  • Perry USD 343
  • Pittsburg USD 250
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Seaman USD 345
  • South Brown County USD 430
  • Tonganoxie USD 464
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Washington County USD 108

 

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 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

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  GOLD

 

  • Colby USD 315
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252

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  SILVER

 

  • Derby USD 260
  • Geary County USD 475

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  BRONZE

 

  • Atchison County USD 377
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Grinnell USD 291
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Solomon USD 393
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Winfield USD 465

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  COPPER

 

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Salina USD 305
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Spring Hill USD 230
  • Valley Heights USD 498

 

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COMMISSIONER'S AWARDS

Commissioner's Star
  COMMISSIONER'S AWARD

 

  • Barnes USD 223
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Colby USD 315
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Doniphan West USD 111
  • Emporia USD 253
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Girard USD 248
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Inman USD 448
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Macksville USD 351
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Ness City USD 303
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Sedgwick USD 439
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Spearville USD 381
  • Sublette USD 374
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Washington County USD 108

Commissioner's Star
  COMMISSIONER'S AWARD WITH HONORS

 

  • Attica USD 511
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chanute USD 413
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Crest USD 479
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellinwood USD 355
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Greeley County USD 200
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Hoxie Community USD 412
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Iola USD 257
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Kismet-Plains USD 483
  • La Crosse USD 395
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Meade USD 226
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Thunder Ridge USD 110
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

Commissioner's Star
  COMMISSIONER'S AWARD WITH HIGHEST DISTINCTION

 

  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Satanta USD 507
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350

 

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