Harper Elem

As a close-knit elementary campus in Harper, Kansas, Harper Elem teaches 255 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Chaparral Schools.

Chaparral Schools runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 829 students. Harper Elem is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Harper Elem shows that White students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Harper County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Harper Elem has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Harper Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of +14.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harper County indicate median household income runs about $53,488, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Harper Elem is one of 6 public schools in Harper County (combined enrollment of about 998 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chaparral Virtual School, around 4.6 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harper Elem comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harper Elem has held roughly steady, going from 256 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Harper Elem typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.