Linn Elementary

Linn Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Dodge City, Kansas, part of Dodge City, works with 361 students in grades K through 5.

Within Dodge City, which oversees 11 schools and 7,268 students, Linn Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Linn Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Ford County as a whole is about 59% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Linn Elementary shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Ford County's rate of about 80%.

After controlling for student poverty, Linn Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.9%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Ford County put the typical household earns roughly $70,781 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Ford County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,836 students), of which Linn Elementary is one.

Dodge City Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Linn Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.3%.

Linn Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 429 students in 2018 compared to 361 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 28.5:1 in 2025.

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