Graber Elementary

Graber Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in Hutchinson, Kansas, overseen by Hutchinson Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 311 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 10 schools in Hutchinson Public Schools (3,957 students total), Graber Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Graber Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, Graber Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Reno County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Graber Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Reno County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $60,645 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Reno County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,909 students), Graber Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hutchinson Virtual School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Graber Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.4%.

Graber Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Graber Elementary's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 348 (now 311). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 64% to 53%.

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