Sabetha Elementary School

Sabetha Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Sabetha, Kansas, run under Prairie Hills. Current enrollment sits at 401 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 28% bigger than typical.

Across the 5 schools in Prairie Hills (953 students total), Sabetha Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sabetha Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 94% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sabetha Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Nemaha County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $77,348 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Sabetha Elementary School is one of 9 public schools in Nemaha County (combined enrollment of about 1,884 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sabetha Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Sabetha Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Sabetha Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 368 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 92% to 86%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Sabetha Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.