Frank Layden Elem

Frank Layden Elem, a large elementary campus in Frontenac, Kansas, overseen by Frontenac Public Schools, serves 489 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% larger than the state mean of about 313.

Frontenac Public Schools runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,006 students. Frank Layden Elem is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Frank Layden Elem lists that nearly all students (82%) are White; the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 43% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frank Layden Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of +11.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate median household earnings sit near $52,844, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Frank Layden Elem is one of 17 public schools in Crawford County (combined enrollment of about 6,146 students).

Nearest neighbor: Frontenac Jr. High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frank Layden Elem. On composite proficiency, Frank Layden Elem comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Frank Layden Elem operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 489 students in 2018 compared to 489 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 93% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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