Norwich Elementary School

Norwich Elementary School, a micro-enrollment primary school in Norwich, Kansas, part of Kingman - Norwich, serves 108 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Norwich Elementary School sits 65% leaner than that benchmark.

Kingman - Norwich comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 865 students; Norwich Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Norwich Elementary School shows that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Norwich Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Norwich Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.3%; this one delivers 46.7%.

In the broader community, Kingman County reports that median household income runs about $59,842, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Kingman County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,091 students), of which Norwich Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Norwich High, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Norwich Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.7%.

Norwich Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 108 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.