Stockton Elem
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Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 25 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stockton Elem
Located at 201 N Cypress, in Stockton, Kansas, Stockton Elem is a small elementary campus that caters to 199 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Stockton. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Stockton Elem sits 36% below that benchmark.
Across the 2 schools in Stockton (282 students total), Stockton Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Stockton Elem shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest consists of 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. Compared to Rooks County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Rooks County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stockton Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 39.2%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Rooks County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,500, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 2%. In all, Rooks County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 812 students), of which Stockton Elem is one.
Stockton High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stockton Elem ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 32.7%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Stockton Elem's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 254 (now 199). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
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Rooks County at a glance
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