Sullivan Elem

As a medium-sized elementary-level community in Ulysses, Kansas, Sullivan Elem serves 338 students from grades 3 through 5, run under Ulysses.

Within Ulysses, which oversees 5 schools and 1,517 students, Sullivan Elem is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sullivan Elem reports that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 28% White, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sullivan Elem has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sullivan Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.5%; this one delivers 27.4%.

Across the wider county, Grant County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,476, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Sullivan Elem is one of 5 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 1,517 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kepley Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sullivan Elem ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.7%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 14%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 338 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.