Hoxie Elem

Hoxie Elem is an elementary school of small scale in Hoxie, Kansas, one of the schools within Hoxie Community Schools, teacheing 253 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Within Hoxie Community Schools, which oversees 2 schools and 432 students, Hoxie Elem is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hoxie Elem logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). The remainder reads as 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Roughly 38% of students at Hoxie Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hoxie Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 53.9%, a residual of +9.7 points.

Across the wider county, Sheridan County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,750 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Sheridan County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 503 students), of which Hoxie Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hoxie High, around 0.3 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hoxie Elem at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hoxie Elem has shrank 6%, going from 270 students in 2018 to 253 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 87% to 81%.

Inside the community feed, members of the Hoxie Elem community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.