GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall

GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall is a combined-grade school of rural-scale scale in Garden City, Kansas, one of the schools within Garden City, serveing 111 students in grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 353 students per school, that is 69% below typical.

Within Garden City, which oversees 18 schools and 7,032 students, GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% White, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

On the resource side, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 49.0:1, putting GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Finney County's rate of about 73%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 9.2%.

In the surrounding community, Finney County reports that median household earnings sit near $73,009, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall is one.

The closest other public school is USD 457 Virtual Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall's enrollment has edged up 61% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 111). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 67% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 5.6:1 in 2018 to 6.7:1 today.

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