Jayhawk Elementary

Set in Mound City, Kansas, Jayhawk Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Jayhawk. It instructs 311 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Jayhawk runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 574 students. Jayhawk Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Jayhawk Elementary shows that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Jayhawk Elementary logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at Jayhawk Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jayhawk Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 46.5%.

Around the school, Linn County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,069, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Linn County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,839 students), Jayhawk Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Jayhawk-Linn High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jayhawk Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.7%.

Jayhawk Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jayhawk Elementary has fell 10%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 95% to 89%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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