Anthony Elem

As a close-knit elementary school in Anthony, Kansas, Anthony Elem enrolls 210 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Chaparral Schools. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Chaparral Schools comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 829 students; Anthony Elem is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Anthony Elem shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Anthony Elem shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Anthony Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Anthony Elem ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.3%; Anthony Elem posts 52.3%, +20.0 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Harper County shows the typical household earns roughly $53,488 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Harper County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 998 students), of which Anthony Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chaparral Virtual School, around 4.8 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Anthony Elem ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Anthony Elem's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 262 (now 210). Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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