Enrollment
218
Elementary
DISTRICT 230 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABILENE·NCES 200318001059
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary
1101 North Vine, Abilene, KS 67410 · (785) 263-1643 · Dickinson County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL218 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Kansas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
15.9:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
118 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 96 | 44% |
| Grade 5 | 122 | 56% |
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
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KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
40.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
31.7%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 | 40.8% | 31.7% |
| 2023-24 | 36.9% | 26.2% |
% 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
35.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.3%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary's state test result (35.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary this school | 218 | 54.1% | 35.2% |
| Belle Plaine Elem Belle Plaine | 211 | 52.6% | 34.4% |
| McLouth Elem McLouth | 221 | 54.8% | 43.5% |
| Central Heights Elem Richmond | 239 | 52.7% | 54.1% |
| Parker Elem Parker | 229 | 55.0% | 51.7% |
| Lacygne Elem LaCygne | 221 | 51.1% | 44.5% |
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 Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Dickinson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #436 of 625 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #448 of 625 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #439 of 625 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 218 | #515 of 714 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #476 of 539 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.4% | #498 of 540 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.1% | #327 of 658 | #3 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.0% | #327 of 377 | N/A |
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
218
+11 (+5%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 224
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 218 | 13.7 | 15.9:1 | 54% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 233 | 11 | 21.2:1 | 58% (134) |
| 2022-23 | 216 | 12 | 18.0:1 | 60% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 207 | 12 | 17.3:1 | 54% (111) |
| 2017-18 | 227 | 11.8 | 19.2:1 | 57% (130) |
| 2015-16 | 258 | 12 | 21.5:1 | 55% (142) |
| 2010-11 | 261 | 15 | 17.4:1 | 49% (129) |
| 2000-01 | 222 | 13 | 17.1:1 | 39% (86) |
| 1990-91 | 224 | 12 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (227 to 218); teachers up 16% (11.8 to 13.7).
About Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Abilene, Kansas. Its grade span covers grades 4 through 5, with 218 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Kansas enroll around 313, and this school is 30% below that mark.
Abilene includes 6 schools. Together they enroll 1,476 students.
White students account for 89% of the school's enrollment. After that, the student body is 7% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Among Dickinson County residents, the White share is about 91%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 19%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is 15.9:1, based on 13.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Kansas is 13.2:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary counts 54% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 24% of Kansas public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 35.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 36.3%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Dickinson County show that the median household earns about $68,417 a year, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Dickinson County has 19 public schools with about 3,530 students, including Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary.
About 0.2 miles separate Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary from the closest public school, Abilene Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: 5. On average proficiency, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is 3rd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, a location NCES labels Town: Distant.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 218, from 207 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.9 students per teacher, compared with 17.3 in 2020-21.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Dickinson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
18,445
Census ACS
Median income
$68,417
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
3,530 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Abilene
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 443 students
- Abilene Middle SchoolMiddle · 319 students
- Kennedy ElemElementary · 276 students
- McKinley ElemElementary · 196 students
- Abilene Virtual SchoolHigh · 24 students
Other schools in Abilene
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 443 students
- Abilene Middle SchoolMiddle · 319 students
- Kennedy ElemElementary · 276 students
- McKinley ElemElementary · 196 students
- Blue Ridge ElemElementary · 71 students
- Rural Center ElemElementary · 62 students
Other Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 3 states are named Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary. Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is the 6th largest of the 6.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower ElementaryCorona, CA · 757 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary SchoolPISCATAWAY, NJ · 513 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary SchoolPARLIN, NJ · 488 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower ElementaryGarden Grove, CA · 480 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower ElementarySanta Clara, CA · 453 students
Nearby schools
- Abilene Middle School0.2 mi · 319
- Abilene Virtual School0.3 mi · 24
- Abilene High School0.3 mi · 443
- Kennedy Elem0.7 mi · 276
- McKinley Elem0.9 mi · 196
- Enterprise Elem5.8 mi · 86
Frequently asked questions
About Dwight D. Eisenhower ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary?
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary enrolls approximately 218 students in grades 04-05.
What grades does Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary serve?
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary serves grades 04-05.
How many students per teacher at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary?
Student demographics at Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary are roughly 89% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% Two or more.
What district is Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary in?
Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary is part of Abilene.
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