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Kansas: the highest-poverty counties by school enrollment

61 counties

Kansas counties ranked by the share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Counties need at least 3 schools and 1,000 students to qualify. The median ranked county is at 53.1%. Showing ranks 1 to 50.

#CountyStateSchoolsStudentsStudents on FRL% FRL
1Seward CountyKS105,1154,40586.1%
2Ford CountyKS157,8366,23379.5%
3Wyandotte CountyKS6230,71323,11375.3%
4Finney CountyKS237,9395,72072.8%
5Montgomery CountyKS144,7363,27970.3%
6Grant CountyKS51,5171,06169.9%
7Elk CountyKS52,56332966.7%
8Labette CountyKS183,4682,26965.4%
9Morton CountyKS71,68831364.1%
10Sedgwick CountyKS15984,56952,51362.9%
11Barton CountyKS154,1792,60962.4%
12Crawford CountyKS176,1463,80862.0%
13Cherokee CountyKS173,6472,20661.4%
14Brown CountyKS71,47487659.4%
15Lyon CountyKS145,1223,02859.1%
16Cowley CountyKS225,7143,35658.8%
17Atchison CountyKS61,9481,13558.3%
18Stevens CountyKS61,15867558.3%
19Neosho CountyKS102,4061,39858.1%
20Saline CountyKS177,5804,39458.0%
21Rice CountyKS101,43483157.9%
22Cloud CountyKS81,36178557.7%
23Bourbon CountyKS72,1721,24557.3%
24Allen CountyKS112,4641,18056.6%
25Anderson CountyKS61,18866155.6%
26Geary CountyKS146,8803,81755.5%
27Reno CountyKS328,9094,66355.1%
28Linn CountyKS81,8391,00054.4%
29Shawnee CountyKS5226,29414,01454.1%
30Wilson CountyKS81,54682953.6%
31Sumner CountyKS233,4361,79653.1%
32Franklin CountyKS154,1872,17452.1%
33Harvey CountyKS175,0122,58151.5%
34Russell CountyKS51,07553649.9%
35Dickinson CountyKS193,5301,73749.2%
36Pratt CountyKS71,58476949.0%
37Kingman CountyKS91,09152248.5%
38Osage CountyKS132,5871,23047.5%
39Ottawa CountyKS61,19356247.1%
40Clay CountyKS61,27259246.5%
41Jackson CountyKS92,4261,10345.5%
42Doniphan CountyKS91,34060645.4%
43Coffey CountyKS101,49867945.3%
44Mitchell CountyKS41,06948445.3%
45Marshall CountyKS91,64373544.7%
46Riley CountyKS188,1453,49943.8%
47Marion CountyKS112,15377343.6%
48Gray CountyKS81,00242542.4%
49Ellis CountyKS114,0401,56341.4%
50McPherson CountyKS184,8291,92039.8%

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