Puls Elem

Puls Elem operates as an one-room-style elementary campus in Attica, Kansas, operated by Attica. Current enrollment sits at 122 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Puls Elem sits 61% below that benchmark.

Attica runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 169 students. Puls Elem is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Puls Elem reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 8% Hispanic. Compared to Harper County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at Puls Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Puls Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.1%; this one delivers 26.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harper County) records that median household income runs about $53,488, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harper County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 998 students), Puls Elem is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Attica High, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, Puls Elem comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

Puls Elem operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 127 students in 2018 compared to 122 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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