Golden Plains Elem

Golden Plains Elem, a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Selden, Kansas, run under Golden Plains, enrolls 71 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Golden Plains Elem sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.

Golden Plains runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 158 students. Golden Plains Elem is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Golden Plains Elem records that White students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 63% of students at Golden Plains Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sheridan County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Golden Plains Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.9%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Sheridan County put the typical household earns roughly $73,750 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Sheridan County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 503 students), Golden Plains Elem is one campus in the mix.

Golden Plains Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.5 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Golden Plains Elem at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Golden Plains Elem has contracted 22%, going from 91 students in 2018 to 71 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 31% to 23%. Class-load math has fell: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 in 2025.

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