Frances Willard Elem

Frances Willard Elem is a public mid-sized elementary school in Arkansas City, Kansas. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 281 students in 2024-25.

The district for Frances Willard Elem is Arkansas City, with 8 schools and 2,902 students.

White students make up 44% of enrollment at Frances Willard Elem, the largest share of any group. Next come 41% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Pacific Islander. That compares with about 80% White among all Cowley County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 63%.

Frances Willard Elem has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1. The gap from the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas is 4.4 students per teacher. At Frances Willard Elem, 77% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Cowley County is 59%.

A school with Frances Willard Elem's lunch-eligibility share in Kansas is predicted to score 25.2%. Frances Willard Elem scores 17.0%, 8.2 points below that line.

Cowley County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $57,878, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Cowley County's 22 public schools enroll about 5,714 students and include Frances Willard Elem.

Roosevelt Elem is the nearest public school to Frances Willard Elem, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 7 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Frances Willard Elem is 8th of 9 on proficiency.

Its location is classified as Town: Distant by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Enrollment was 281 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 247. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 14.5:1 to 17.5:1.

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