Enrollment
186
Elementary
DISTRICT 286 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY·NCES 200639001176
Gertrude Walker Elem
805 W Fair, Garden City, KS 67846 · (620) 805-7600 · Finney County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL186 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
169 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 58% larger than its 4th grade class (26).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
32.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
17.4%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.3% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 32.6% | 22.8% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gertrude Walker Elem
Gertrude Walker Elem's state test result (26.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gertrude Walker Elem this school | 186 | 90.9% | 26.3% |
| Eugene Ware Elem Kansas City | 242 | 90.9% | 15.6% |
| Mark Twain Elem Kansas City | 222 | 92.3% | 25.0% |
| McKinley Elementary School Kansas City | 243 | 92.6% | 21.3% |
| Lindbergh Elem Kansas City | 216 | 90.7% | 16.3% |
| Jefferson Elem Wichita | 381 | 91.9% | 17.5% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gertrude Walker Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Finney County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #527 of 625 | #10 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #563 of 625 | #10 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #529 of 625 | #10 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 186 | #557 of 714 | #10 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.9% | #44 of 658 | #2 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #95 of 377 | #3 of 8 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
186
-12 (-6%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 406
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 186 | 13.4 | 13.8:1 | 91% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 216 | 13.5 | 16.0:1 | 92% (199) |
| 2022-23 | 208 | 15.8 | 13.2:1 | 84% (175) |
| 2020-21 | 198 | 16 | 12.4:1 | 79% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 238 | 18.6 | 12.8:1 | 82% (196) |
| 2015-16 | 291 | 20 | 14.6:1 | 88% (257) |
| 2010-11 | 286 | 23 | 12.4:1 | 87% (249) |
| 2000-01 | 342 | 19 | 18.0:1 | 55% (188) |
| 1990-91 | 406 | 18 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gertrude Walker Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (238 to 186); teachers down 28% (18.6 to 13.4).
About Gertrude Walker Elem
Gertrude Walker Elem serves students in Garden City, Kansas, as a small elementary school. The school has 186 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 4. Elementary schools in Kansas have about 313 students on average; enrollment here is 41% lower.
Gertrude Walker Elem is one school in an 18-school district, Garden City, which enrolls 7,032 students.
The largest group at Gertrude Walker Elem is Hispanic students, at 62%. Enrollment also includes 17% Black, 9% Asian, 6% White, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in Finney County, the Hispanic share is about 53%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Gertrude Walker Elem scores 57%.
Based on 13.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, Gertrude Walker Elem has a ratio of 13.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Kansas is similar, at 13.2:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 91%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Finney County is 73%.
Among Kansas public elementary schools, Gertrude Walker Elem outscored 32%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 18.7% for Gertrude Walker Elem. The school posts 26.3%, 7.6 points above the prediction.
The school is in Finney County, where median household income comes to about $73,009, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Finney County counts 23 public schools with about 7,939 students.
About 0.6 miles separate Gertrude Walker Elem from the closest public school, Georgia Matthews Elem. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Gertrude Walker Elem places 5th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Remote: in a town far from an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Gertrude Walker Elem had a net loss of 12 students, or 6%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.4:1 to 13.8:1 over the same years.
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Finney County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,084
Census ACS
Median income
$73,009
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
Nearby schools
- Georgia Matthews Elem0.6 mi · 112
- Abe Hubert Elementary School0.6 mi · 285
- Horace J. Good Middle School0.7 mi · 583
- Edith Scheuerman Elem0.7 mi · 204
- USD 457 Virtual Academy0.7 mi · 76
- GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall0.7 mi · 111
Frequently asked questions
About Gertrude Walker ElemWhat is the total enrollment at Gertrude Walker Elem?
Gertrude Walker Elem enrolls approximately 186 students in grades KG-04.
Is Gertrude Walker Elem an elementary, middle, or high school?
Gertrude Walker Elem is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Gertrude Walker Elem?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Gertrude Walker Elem.
How diverse is Gertrude Walker Elem?
Gertrude Walker Elem reports a student body of 6% White, 62% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Gertrude Walker Elem public or private?
Gertrude Walker Elem is a public K-12 school, overseen by Garden City.
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