Country View Elem

Set in Winfield, Kansas, Country View Elem is a rural-scale K-5 school, overseen by Winfield. It educates 114 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 64% smaller than the state mean of about 313.

Winfield runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,915 students. Country View Elem is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Country View Elem reports that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cowley County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Country View Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of -4.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cowley County) records that median household earnings sit near $57,878, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cowley County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,714 students), Country View Elem is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Winfield Middle School, roughly 4.9 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Country View Elem ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Country View Elem has ticked down 10%, going from 126 students in 2018 to 114 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Country View Elem community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.