Edith Scheuerman Elem

Edith Scheuerman Elem, a tight-knit elementary campus in Garden City, Kansas, one of the schools within Garden City, educates 204 students, covering grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 35% below typical.

Across the 18 schools in Garden City (7,032 students total), Edith Scheuerman Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Edith Scheuerman Elem logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 14% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Finney County as a whole is about 53% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Edith Scheuerman Elem lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Finney County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Edith Scheuerman Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.3%, the actual is 33.5%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Finney County) shows that median household income runs about $73,009, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Finney County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,939 students), of which Edith Scheuerman Elem is one.

Gertrude Walker Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Edith Scheuerman Elem comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.2%.

Edith Scheuerman Elem operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 208 students in 2018 compared to 204 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 18% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Edith Scheuerman Elem typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.