Meadowlark Elementary School

Meadowlark Elementary School is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Liberal, Kansas, operated by Liberal, with 362 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Liberal runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,653 students. Meadowlark Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Meadowlark Elementary School shows that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White. By comparison, Seward County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 98% of students at Meadowlark Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Seward County (around 86%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Meadowlark Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 15.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 10.8%.

Around the school, Seward County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,827, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Seward County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,115 students), of which Meadowlark Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cottonwood Elementary School, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Meadowlark Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Meadowlark Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 21.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Meadowlark Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 362). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 85% to 91%.

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