Eisenhower Elem

Set in Junction City, Kansas, Eisenhower Elem is a medium-sized elementary school, operated by Geary County Schools. It works with 370 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Geary County Schools comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,293 students; Eisenhower Elem is among them.

In terms of who attends, Eisenhower Elem logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 15% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Eisenhower Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Geary County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,317 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Geary County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,880 students), Eisenhower Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Spring Valley Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. 8 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), Eisenhower Elem ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 42.1%.

Eisenhower Elem operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 19%: 310 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 23% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.