Tonganoxie Elem

Tonganoxie Elem is an elementary-level community of big scale in Tonganoxie, Kansas, one of the schools within Tonganoxie, serveing 919 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 194% bigger than typical.

Tonganoxie Elem is one of 3 schools operated by Tonganoxie, a district that hosts 1,972 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Tonganoxie Elem records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Leavenworth County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Tonganoxie Elem higher than the state norm the norm. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tonganoxie Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 42.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Leavenworth County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $89,218 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Leavenworth County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,185 students), Tonganoxie Elem is one campus in the mix.

Tonganoxie Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tonganoxie Elem at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 867 students in 2018 compared to 919 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 87% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.