St. Paul Elementary School

St. Paul Elementary School, a small elementary campus in St. Paul, Kansas, one of the schools within Chetopa-St. Paul, hosts 148 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Across the 5 schools in Chetopa-St. Paul (396 students total), St. Paul Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, St. Paul Elementary School records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Neosho County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, St. Paul Elementary School lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Neosho County (around 58%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, St. Paul Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.8%; this one delivers 40.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Neosho County put median household earnings sit near $56,618, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. St. Paul Elementary School is one of 10 public schools in Neosho County (combined enrollment of about 2,406 students).

St. Paul Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around St. Paul Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts St. Paul Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

St. Paul Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. St. Paul Elementary School's enrollment has rose 36% since 2018, when it stood at 109 (now 148). Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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