Miltonvale Elem

Miltonvale Elem is a K-12 campus of one-room-style scale in Miltonvale, Kansas, run under Southern Cloud, instructing 36 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 90% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 353 students.

Across the 4 schools in Southern Cloud (108 students total), Miltonvale Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Miltonvale Elem records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Beyond that, the school lists 8% Hispanic. Compared to Cloud County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 49.0:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Cloud County (around 58%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Miltonvale Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.3%, the actual is 11.4%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cloud County shows median household income runs about $58,770, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Miltonvale Elem is one of 8 public schools in Cloud County (combined enrollment of about 1,361 students).

Miltonvale High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Miltonvale Elem comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Miltonvale Elem has ticked down 18%, going from 44 students in 2018 to 36 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 98% to 92% over that span.

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