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Enrollment
796
Elementary
DISTRICT 286 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY·NCES 200639001178
Jennie Wilson Elem
1401 E Harding, Garden City, KS 67846 · (620) 805-7750 · Finney County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL796 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Kansas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
48.5:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
535 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 567 | 71% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 5% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 5% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 12% smaller than its 4th grade class (51).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
66.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
50.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.3% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 52.4% | 57.8% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
56.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.0%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 30% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Kansas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jennie Wilson Elem
Jennie Wilson Elem's state test result (56.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jennie Wilson Elem this school | 796 | 67.2% | 56.6% |
| Ross Elementary School Dodge City | 502 | 67.9% | 29.7% |
| Turner Elem Kansas City | 560 | 80.7% | 33.8% |
| Hugoton Elem Hugoton | 511 | 59.9% | 51.0% |
| Oak Grove Elem Kansas City | 532 | 79.9% | 36.2% |
| Nieman Elem Shawnee | 456 | 64.5% | 34.5% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jennie Wilson Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Finney County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.6% | #135 of 625 | #1 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #208 of 625 | #2 of 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #101 of 625 | #1 of 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 796 | #6 of 714 | #1 of 13 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 48.5:1 | #539 of 539 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.3% | #287 of 540 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.2% | #188 of 658 | #9 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.1% | #31 of 151 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
796
+156 (+24%) vs 2020
+118% since 1990-91, when it was 365
Student : Teacher
48.5:1
was 45.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 796 | 16.4 | 48.5:1 | 67% (535) |
| 2023-24 | 762 | 15.5 | 49.2:1 | 73% (559) |
| 2022-23 | 800 | 14.8 | 54.0:1 | 69% (551) |
| 2020-21 | 640 | 14 | 45.7:1 | 58% (374) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 15.7 | 42.9:1 | 61% (410) |
| 2015-16 | 652 | 13 | 50.1:1 | 67% (436) |
| 2010-11 | 215 | 16 | 13.4:1 | 57% (123) |
| 2000-01 | 374 | 20 | 18.7:1 | 34% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 365 | 17 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jennie Wilson Elem.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (674 to 796); teachers up 5% (15.7 to 16.4).
About Jennie Wilson Elem
Jennie Wilson Elem is a large elementary school in Garden City, Kansas. It enrolls 796 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 4. It has 154% more students than the average for elementary schools in Kansas (about 313).
Garden City has 7,032 students spread across 18 schools.
More than half of the students at Jennie Wilson Elem are Hispanic (72%). The remaining shares are 15% White, 7% Black, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Finney County's population at about 53%. The diversity index for Jennie Wilson Elem is 45%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 16.4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 48.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Kansas, 13.2:1, is lower. Roughly 67% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Jennie Wilson Elem earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 90% of Kansas public elementary schools.
Jennie Wilson Elem is in the top 10% of Kansas schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 30.0%. The school's actual rate is 56.6%, 26.6 points higher.
For the population of Finney County, the median household earns about $73,009 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Finney County, 23 public schools serve about 7,939 students.
Horace J. Good Middle School is about 0.6 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 22.4%; Jennie Wilson Elem's is 56.6%, ranking 1st of 8.
The school's federal locale classification is Town: Remote.
The school's student count rose 24% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 45.7:1 to 48.5:1.
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Finney County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,084
Census ACS
Median income
$73,009
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrMiddle · 367 students
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrMiddle · 367 students
Nearby schools
- Horace J. Good Middle School0.6 mi · 583
- Georgia Matthews Elem0.6 mi · 112
- USD 457 Virtual Academy0.7 mi · 76
- GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall0.7 mi · 111
- Kenneth Henderson Middle0.7 mi · 425
- Alta Brown Elem0.8 mi · 336
Frequently asked questions
About Jennie Wilson ElemHow many students attend Jennie Wilson Elem?
Jennie Wilson Elem enrolls approximately 796 students in grades PK-04.
Is Jennie Wilson Elem an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jennie Wilson Elem is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jennie Wilson Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jennie Wilson Elem is approximately 48.5:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jennie Wilson Elem?
At Jennie Wilson Elem, the student body is approximately 15% White, 72% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Jennie Wilson Elem public or private?
Jennie Wilson Elem is a public K-12 school, overseen by Garden City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.