Royal Valley Elementary

Royal Valley Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Hoyt, Kansas, part of Royal Valley, with 369 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Royal Valley runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 862 students. Royal Valley Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Royal Valley Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Native American, 12% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Royal Valley Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Jackson County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, Royal Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.1%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $75,215, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Royal Valley Elementary is one of 9 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 2,426 students).

Royal Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Royal Valley Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Royal Valley Elementary has ticked up 25%, going from 296 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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