Peabody-Burns Elementary

Set in Peabody, Kansas, Peabody-Burns Elementary is a micro-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within Peabody-Burns. It hosts 104 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Peabody-Burns Elementary sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

Peabody-Burns comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 206 students; Peabody-Burns Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Peabody-Burns Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 73%; the rest looks like 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Peabody-Burns Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Peabody-Burns Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.2%, the actual is 28.7%, a residual of -4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $64,695, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Marion County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,153 students), Peabody-Burns Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Peabody-Burns Jr/Sr High School, around 0.3 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Peabody-Burns Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Peabody-Burns Elementary's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 126 (now 104). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 88% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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