Rock Hills Elementary School

Rock Hills Elementary School is one of the close-knit K-5 schools in Mankato, Kansas, part of Rock Hills, with 187 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Rock Hills Elementary School sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Rock Hills Elementary School is one of 2 schools operated by Rock Hills, a district that serves 362 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock Hills Elementary School lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Rock Hills Elementary School logs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rock Hills Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jewell County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,634 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Jewell County's 2 public schools (combined enrollment of about 362 students), Rock Hills Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Rock Hills Jr/Sr High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Rock Hills Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Rock Hills Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Rock Hills Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 7% since 2018, when it stood at 174 (now 187). Over the same period, the White share fell from 91% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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