Plainville Elem

Located at 203 SE Cardinal Avenue, in Plainville, Kansas, Plainville Elem is an intimate primary school that educates 256 students (grades pre-K through 6), run under Plainville.

Plainville comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 453 students; Plainville Elem is among them.

On the student-mix side, Plainville Elem logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. Compared to Rooks County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Plainville Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -11.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Rooks County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,500 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 2%. Plainville Elem is one of 7 public schools in Rooks County (combined enrollment of about 812 students).

The closest other public school is Plainville High, roughly 0.1 miles away. On composite proficiency, Plainville Elem comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 47%: 174 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 97% to 90% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.