Trojan Elem

Trojan Elem operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Osawatomie, Kansas, run under Osawatomie. Current enrollment sits at 341 students spanning grades 1 through 5.

Within Osawatomie, which oversees 5 schools and 1,021 students, Trojan Elem is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Trojan Elem shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Trojan Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Trojan Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Miami County's rate of about 36%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Trojan Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.3%; this one delivers 31.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Miami County put the typical household earns roughly $89,000 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Miami County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,529 students), of which Trojan Elem is one.

The closest other public school is Swenson Early Childhood Education Center, roughly 0.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Trojan Elem ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 410 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 91% to 83% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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