Chase County Elementary School

Chase County Elementary School, a close-knit primary school in Strong City, Kansas, run under Chase County, enrolls 217 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Chase County Elementary School sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

Chase County comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 409 students; Chase County Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Chase County Elementary School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Chase County Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at Chase County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chase County Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Chase County put the typical household earns roughly $56,484 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Chase County Elementary School is one of 2 public schools in Chase County (combined enrollment of about 409 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chase County Junior Senior High School, around 1.7 miles off. On composite proficiency, Chase County Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Chase County Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 212 (now 217). Over the same period, the White share declined from 92% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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