Georgia Matthews Elem

Georgia Matthews Elem is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in Garden City, Kansas, overseen by Garden City, with 112 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Georgia Matthews Elem sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Georgia Matthews Elem is one of 18 schools operated by Garden City, a district that educates 7,032 students overall.

Demographically, Georgia Matthews Elem reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 53% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at Georgia Matthews Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Finney County's rate of about 73%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Georgia Matthews Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.7%; this one delivers 26.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Finney County) shows that median household income runs about $73,009, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Finney County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,939 students), of which Georgia Matthews Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Horace J. Good Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Georgia Matthews Elem. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Georgia Matthews Elem ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.7%.

Georgia Matthews Elem operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 33%: 168 students in 2018 compared to 112 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 71% to 78%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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