Blackmore Elementary

Located at 530 N. Orchard St., in El Dorado, Kansas, Blackmore Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that hosts 303 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by El Dorado.

Within El Dorado, which oversees 6 schools and 1,756 students, Blackmore Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Blackmore Elementary logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at Blackmore Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Butler County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Blackmore Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Butler County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,610 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Butler County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,052 students), of which Blackmore Elementary is one.

El Dorado Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blackmore Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Blackmore Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.