Pretty Prairie Elem

Pretty Prairie Elem is a low-enrollment elementary school in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, overseen by Pretty Prairie. The school instructs 133 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Pretty Prairie comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 283 students; Pretty Prairie Elem is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pretty Prairie Elem shows that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Pretty Prairie Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Reno County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pretty Prairie Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.0%; this one delivers 47.7%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Reno County put the typical household earns roughly $60,645 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Reno County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,909 students), Pretty Prairie Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pretty Prairie High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pretty Prairie Elem. On composite proficiency, Pretty Prairie Elem comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pretty Prairie Elem has increased 14%, going from 117 students in 2018 to 133 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Pretty Prairie Elem community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.