Enrollment
221
Elementary
DISTRICT 286 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY·NCES 200639001172
Buffalo Jones Elem
708 Taylor Ave, Garden City, KS 67846 · (620) 805-7300 · Finney County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL221 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
197 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 30 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 28% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (30) is 33% smaller than its 4th grade class (45).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
36.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
26.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.8% | 26.9% |
| 2023-24 | 24.4% | 29.3% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.5%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Buffalo Jones Elem
Buffalo Jones Elem's state test result (29.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Jones Elem this school | 221 | 89.1% | 29.4% |
| Edith Scheuerman Elem Garden City | 204 | 85.3% | 33.5% |
| Abe Hubert Elementary School Garden City | 285 | 94.0% | 23.6% |
| Ortiz Elementary School Wichita | 323 | 92.9% | 18.2% |
| Alta Brown Elem Garden City | 336 | 86.9% | 23.2% |
| John Fiske Elem Kansas City | 287 | 95.1% | 13.9% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Buffalo Jones Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Finney County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #494 of 625 | #7 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #487 of 625 | #7 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #492 of 625 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 221 | #509 of 714 | #6 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #229 of 539 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.2% | #470 of 540 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #55 of 658 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.3% | #70 of 377 | #2 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
221
+14 (+7%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 463
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 11.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 221 | 16.8 | 13.1:1 | 89% (197) |
| 2023-24 | 240 | 18 | 13.3:1 | 90% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 228 | 17.7 | 12.9:1 | 86% (197) |
| 2020-21 | 207 | 18 | 11.5:1 | 81% (167) |
| 2017-18 | 292 | 21.3 | 13.7:1 | 88% (257) |
| 2015-16 | 311 | 20 | 15.6:1 | 87% (270) |
| 2010-11 | 343 | 27 | 12.7:1 | 91% (313) |
| 2000-01 | 432 | 24 | 18.0:1 | 71% (306) |
| 1990-91 | 463 | 23 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Buffalo Jones Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (292 to 221); teachers down 21% (21.3 to 16.8).
About Buffalo Jones Elem
Buffalo Jones Elem is an elementary school in Garden City, Kansas, reachable at (620) 805-7300. The school has 221 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 4. Elementary schools in Kansas have about 313 students on average; enrollment here is 29% lower.
Buffalo Jones Elem is one of the 18 schools that make up Garden City (7,032 students in total).
A large majority of enrollment at Buffalo Jones Elem is Hispanic, at 87%. The school is also 6% White, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 53%. The diversity index for Buffalo Jones Elem is 23%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Buffalo Jones Elem totals 16.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Kansas is similar, at 13.2:1. Federal data show 89% of students (197) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Finney County, the average is 73%.
Among Kansas public elementary schools, Buffalo Jones Elem outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Buffalo Jones Elem's lunch-eligibility share in Kansas is predicted to score 19.5%. Buffalo Jones Elem scores 29.4%, 9.8 points above that line.
In the wider Finney County area, median household income comes to about $73,009, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Finney County counts 23 public schools with about 7,939 students.
Abe Hubert Elementary School sits about 0.6 miles from Buffalo Jones Elem. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Buffalo Jones Elem is 2nd among 8 schools close by.
Under the NCES locale system, Buffalo Jones Elem is Town: Remote.
Enrollment increased 7% over 4 years, reaching 221 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.5:1 to 13.1:1.
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Finney County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,084
Census ACS
Median income
$73,009
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
Nearby schools
- Abe Hubert Elementary School0.6 mi · 285
- Edith Scheuerman Elem0.7 mi · 204
- GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall0.8 mi · 111
- USD 457 Virtual Academy0.8 mi · 76
- Horace J. Good Middle School0.9 mi · 583
- Gertrude Walker Elem0.9 mi · 186
Frequently asked questions
About Buffalo Jones ElemHow large is Buffalo Jones Elem?
Buffalo Jones Elem enrolls approximately 221 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Buffalo Jones Elem serve?
Buffalo Jones Elem serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many teachers does Buffalo Jones Elem have?
Buffalo Jones Elem employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
How diverse is Buffalo Jones Elem?
Buffalo Jones Elem reports a student body of 6% White, 87% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Buffalo Jones Elem in?
Buffalo Jones Elem is part of Garden City.
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