Abe Hubert Elementary School

Abe Hubert Elementary School, an average-sized elementary-level community in Garden City, Kansas, overseen by Garden City, hosts 285 students, covering grades K through 6.

Within Garden City, which oversees 18 schools and 7,032 students, Abe Hubert Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Abe Hubert Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). Other groups include 10% White, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Finney County (around 73%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Abe Hubert Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.1%; this one delivers 23.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Finney County shows median household income runs about $73,009, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Finney County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,939 students), of which Abe Hubert Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Abe Hubert Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Abe Hubert Elementary School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Abe Hubert Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 382 (now 285). The White share of enrollment declined from 14% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.