Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary

Set in Abilene, Kansas, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is a small elementary-level community, operated by Abilene. It hosts 218 students across grades 4 through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Abilene, a district that enrolls 1,476 students overall.

On demographics, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dickinson County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,417 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dickinson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,530 students), Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Abilene Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary. On composite proficiency, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary has decreased 4%, going from 227 students in 2018 to 218 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.