Kiowa County Elementary School
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Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 40% 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 15 points, placing it in Kansas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kiowa County Elementary School
Located at 730 S. Main, in Greensburg, Kansas, Kiowa County Elementary School is an intimate K-5 school that instructs 130 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Kiowa County. That puts it 58% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.
Kiowa County Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by Kiowa County, a district that teaches 261 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Kiowa County Elementary School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Kiowa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Kiowa County Elementary School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Kiowa County Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Kiowa County Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.7%; Kiowa County Elementary School posts 54.8%, +15.0 points above that line.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Kiowa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Kiowa County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 343 students), Kiowa County Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Kiowa County Junior High/High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kiowa County Elementary School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 35.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Five-year trend. Kiowa County Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 28% since 2018, when it stood at 180 (now 130). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 89% to 85%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for Kiowa County Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Kiowa County at a glance
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