Kansas State Department of Education Kansans Can Star Recognition Program

Award Winners: 2020 | 2021 | 2022

 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION

 

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  GOLD

 

  • Barnes USD 223
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Coffeyville USD 445
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Conway Springs USD 356
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Eureka USD 389
  • Fort Scott USD 234
  • Frontenac Public Schools USD 249
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Hodgeman County Schools USD 227
  • Hoxie Community Schools USD 412
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Leoti USD 467
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Minneola USD 219
  • Montezuma USD 371
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Palco USD 269
  • Paradise USD 399
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Quinter Public Schools USD 293
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Sedgwick Public Schools USD 439
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Solomon USD 393
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Triplains USD 275
  • Troy Public Schools USD 429
  • Udall USD 463
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wakeeney USD 208
  • Wallace County Schools USD 241
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Wheatland USD 292
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

 

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  SILVER

 

  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Burlingame Public School USD 454
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Cherokee USD 247
  • Cherryvale USD 447
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Ell-Saline USD 307
  • Girard USD 248
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Jefferson West USD 340
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Labette County USD 506
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Maize USD 266
  • Marmaton Valley USD 256
  • Meade USD 226
  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Paola USD 368
  • Perry Public Schools USD 343
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Riley County USD 378
  • Santa Fe Trail USD 434
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Uniontown USD 235

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Augusta USD 402
  • Central Plains USD 112
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Derby USD 260
  • Dodge City USD 443
  • Emporia USD 253
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Great Bend USD 428
  • Greeley County USD 200
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Holton USD 336
  • Hugoton USD 210
  • Inman USD 448
  • Iola USD 257
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Louisburg USD 416
  • Morris County USD 417
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Remington-Whitewater USD 206
  • Riverton USD 404
  • Salina USD 305
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Washington County USD 108
  • Woodson USD 366

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Andover USD 385
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Doniphan West USD 111
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Logan USD 326
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Macksville USD 351
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Newton USD 373
  • Nickerson-South Hutchinson USD 309
  • Osawatomie USD 367
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Satanta USD 507
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Stockton USD 271
  • Tonganoxie USD 464
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • West Elk USD 282

 

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ACADEMICALLY PREPARED FOR POSTSECONDARY

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  SILVER

 

  • Branches Academy
  • Fort Leavenworth USD 207
  • Haviland USD 474

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Louisburg USD 416
  • Lutheran Schools, Topeka
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Riley County USD 378
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wellington Christian School
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Abilene USD 435
  • Andover USD 385
  • Annoor Islamic School
  • Ashland USD 220
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Baxter Springs USD 508
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Central Plains USD 112
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Circle USD 375
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Clearwater USD 264
  • Conway Springs USD 356
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Dighton USD 482
  • Dodge City Catholic Diocese
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Eureka USD 389
  • Fort Larned USD 495
  • Frontenac Public Schools USD 249
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Geary County Schools USD 475
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Haven Public Schools USD 312
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Hodgeman County Schools USD 227
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Independence USD 446
  • Independence Bible School
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Jefferson West USD 340
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Kiowa County USD 422
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Leoti USD 467
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Little River USD 444
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Maize USD 266
  • Manhattan-Ogden USD 383
  • Marais Des Cygnes Valley USD 456
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Meade USD 226
  • Minneola USD 219
  • Montezuma USD 371
  • Morris County USD 417
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Mulvane USD 263
  • North Jackson USD 335
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Oberlin USD 294
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton USD 322
  • Osage City USD 420
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Paola USD 368
  • Paradise USD 399
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Quinter Public Schools USD 293
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Remington-Whitewater USD 206
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Royal Valley USD 337
  • Rural Vista USD 481
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Sedgwick Public Schools USD 439
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • Skyline Schools USD 438
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. Francis USD 297
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Sylvan Grove USD 299
  • Thunder Ridge Schools USD 110
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Valley Center Public Schools USD 262
  • Valley Heights USD 498
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Wallace County Schools USD 241
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Western Plains USD 106
  • Woodson USD 366
 
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 POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS

 

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  GOLD

 

  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Cheney USD 268
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Frontenac Public Schools USD 249
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Inman USD 448
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

 

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  SILVER

 

  • Andover USD 385
  • Ashland USD 220
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Colby Public Schools USD 315
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Conway Springs USD 356
  • Crest USD 479
  • Ell-Saline USD 307
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hodgeman County Schools USD 227
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Hoxie Community Schools USD 412
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Louisburg USD 416
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Maize USD 266
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton USD 322
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Riley County USD 378
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Skyline Schools USD 438
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Barber USD 255
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Sylvan Grove USD 299
  • Triplains USD 275
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Valley Center Public Schools USD 262
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Wallace County Schools USD 241
  • Washington County Schools USD 108

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Chanute Public Schools USD 413
  • Circle USD 375
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Doniphan West Schools USD 111
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Girard USD 248
  • Graham County USD 281
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Independence USD 446
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Jefferson West USD 340
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Labette County USD 506
  • LaCrosse USD 395
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Logan USD 326
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Minneola USD 219
  • Morris County USD 417
  • North Jackson USD 335
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Palco USD 269
  • Paola USD 368
  • Quinter Public Schools USD 293
  • Remington-Whitewater USD 206
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • Stockton USD 271
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Wheatland USD 292

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Abilene USD 435
  • Augusta USD 402
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Central Plains USD 112
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Clearwater USD 264
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellinwood Public Schools USD 355
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Greeley County Schools USD 200
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Haven Public Schools USD 312
  • Holton USD 336
  • Kingman-Norwich USD 331
  • Lakin USD 215
  • Leoti USD 467
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Marmaton Valley USD 256
  • McPherson USD 418
  • Meade USD 226
  • Montezuma USD 371
  • Newton USD 373
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Northern Valley USD 212
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Oswego USD 504
  • Paradise USD 399
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496
  • Perry Public Schools USD 343
  • Pleasanton USD 344
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Russell County USD 407
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Sedgwick Public Schools USD 439
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • Solomon USD 393
  • South Brown County USD 430
  • Thunder Ridge Schools USD 110
  • Tonganoxie USD 464
  • Troy Public Schools USD 429
  • Udall USD 463
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wakeeney USD 208
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Winfield USD 465

 

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SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH

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  SILVER

 

  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Circle USD 375
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Hays USD 489
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Topeka Public Schools USD 501

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Augusta USD 402
  • Barber County North USD 254
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Coffeyville USD 445
  • Colby Public Schools USD 315
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Derby USD 260
  • Dodge City USD 443
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Oxford USD 358
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Rose Hill Public Schools USD 394
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • South Brown County USD 430
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Turner-Kansas City USD 202

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Baxter Springs USD 508
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Fowler USD 225
  • Geary County Schools USD 475
  • Humboldt USD 258
  • Hutchinson Public Schools USD 308
  • Independence USD 446
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Kansas City USD 500
  • Liberal USD 480
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Parsons USD 503
  • Perry Public Schools USD 343
  • Salina USD 305
  • St. Francis USD 297
  • Valley Falls USD 338

 

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KINDERGARTEN READINESS

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Coffeyville USD 445
  • Colby Public Schools USD 315
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Geary County Schools USD 475
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Hays USD 489
  • Iola USD 257
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Leavenworth USD 453
  • Perry Public Schools USD 343
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Turner-Kansas City USD 202

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Newton USD 373
  • North Jackson USD 335
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Salina USD 305
  • South Barber USD 255
  • St. Francis USD 297

 

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 INDIVIDUAL PLAN OF STUDY

 

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  GOLD

 

  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203

 

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  SILVER

 

  • De Soto USD 232
  • Nemaha Central USD 115

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Atchison Public Schools USD 409
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Colby Public Schools USD 315
  • Hutchinson Public Schools USD 308
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Smoky Valley USD 400

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Derby USD 260
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Maize USD 266
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Oxford USD 358
  • Pittsburg USD 250
  • Salina USD 305
  • Seaman USD 345
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Topeka Public Schools USD 501
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Wichita USD 259

 

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 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

 

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  GOLD

 

  • Southern Lyon County USD 252

 

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  BRONZE

 

  • Atchison County Community Schools USD 377
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Derby USD 260
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Quinter Public Schools USD 293
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Winfield USD 465

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Geary County Schools USD 475
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Valley Heights USD 498

 

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Commissioner's star COMMISSIONER'S AWARD

  • Andover USD 385
  • Ashland USD 220
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Colby Public Schools USD 315
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Ellinwood Public Schools USD 355
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Graham County USD 281
  • Greeley County Schools USD 200
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Independence USD 446
  • Inman USD 448
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Lakin USD 215
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Meade USD 226
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Northern Valley USD 212
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton USD 322
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Pleasanton USD 344
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Stockton USD 271
  • Sylvan Grove USD 299
  • Thunder Ridge Schools USD 110
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Valley Center Public Schools USD 262
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wallace County Schools USD 241
  • Washington County Schools USD 108
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Wheatland USD 292

 

 

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Commissioner's star COMMISSIONER'S AWARD WITH HONORS

  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chanute Public Schools USD 413
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Crest USD 479
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Frontenac Public Schools USD 249
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Girard USD 248
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Labette County USD 506
  • LaCrosse USD 395
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Palco USD 269
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Skyline Schools USD 438
  • South Brown County USD 430
  • South Haven USD 509
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Triplains USD 275
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

 

 

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Commissioner's starCOMMISSIONER'S AWARD WITH HIGHEST DISTINCTION

  • Smith Center USD 237

 

 

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