Broadmoor Elementary

Broadmoor Elementary is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Louisburg, Kansas, operated by Louisburg, with 388 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% larger than the state mean of about 313.

Broadmoor Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Louisburg, a district that teaches 1,745 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Broadmoor Elementary shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Broadmoor Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Broadmoor Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at Broadmoor Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Miami County (around 36%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Broadmoor Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Miami County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $89,000 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Broadmoor Elementary is one of 17 public schools in Miami County (combined enrollment of about 6,529 students).

The closest other public school is Louisburg Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Broadmoor Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 398 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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