Enterprise Elem

As a rural-scale elementary campus in Enterprise, Kansas, Enterprise Elem hosts 86 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Chapman. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Enterprise Elem sits 73% below that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Chapman (1,134 students total), Enterprise Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Enterprise Elem records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Enterprise Elem lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dickinson County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Enterprise Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.6%; this one delivers 31.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Dickinson County shows median household earnings sit near $68,417, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Dickinson County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,530 students), of which Enterprise Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kennedy Elem, around 5.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Enterprise Elem comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

Enterprise Elem operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Enterprise Elem's enrollment has edged up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 82 (now 86). White enrollment moved from 88% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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