Spearville Elem

Spearville Elem, a compact K-5 school in Spearville, Kansas, one of the schools within Spearville, works with 196 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Spearville Elem sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

Spearville runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 373 students. Spearville Elem is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Spearville Elem records that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 47% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Spearville Elem has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Spearville Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ford County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spearville Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Ford County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,781, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Ford County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,836 students), Spearville Elem is one campus in the mix.

Spearville Jr/Sr High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Spearville Elem comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spearville Elem has edged up 32%, going from 149 students in 2018 to 196 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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