La Crosse Elementary

Set in La Crosse, Kansas, La Crosse Elementary is a tiny elementary campus, one of the schools within LaCrosse. It educates 125 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so La Crosse Elementary sits 60% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in LaCrosse (249 students total), La Crosse Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, La Crosse Elementary reports that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest consists of 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting La Crosse Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, La Crosse Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Rush County put median household income runs about $59,970, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Rush County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 421 students), of which La Crosse Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is La Crosse Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Crosse Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 147 students in 2018 compared to 125 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 88% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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