Soule Elementary School

Soule Elementary School is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Dodge City, Kansas, run under Dodge City, instructing 375 students in grades K through 5.

Dodge City runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,268 students. Soule Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Soule Elementary School records that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 12% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Soule Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.1%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,781 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Soule Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Ford County (combined enrollment of about 7,836 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Elem, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Soule Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Soule Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 397 (now 375). Hispanic enrollment moved from 73% to 83% across the same window.

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