Cheylin Elementary

Cheylin Elementary is one of the rural-scale K-5 schools in Bird City, Kansas, overseen by Cheylin, with 102 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 67% below typical.

Cheylin Elementary is one of 2 schools operated by Cheylin, a district that caters to 164 students overall.

On demographics, Cheylin Elementary reports that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Cheyenne County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cheylin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cheyenne County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $55,429 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Cheylin Elementary is one of 4 public schools in Cheyenne County (combined enrollment of about 461 students).

Nearest neighbor: Cheylin Jr/Sr High, around 0.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, Cheylin Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Cheylin Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cheylin Elementary has increased 42%, going from 72 students in 2018 to 102 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 62% across the same window.

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