West Bourbon Elementary

As a compact primary school in Uniontown, Kansas, West Bourbon Elementary hosts 263 students from grades pre-K through 6, one of the schools within Uniontown.

Across the 2 schools in Uniontown (441 students total), West Bourbon Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, West Bourbon Elementary records that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Bourbon County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, West Bourbon Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at West Bourbon Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bourbon County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Bourbon Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.3%; West Bourbon Elementary posts 63.9%, +33.5 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bourbon County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,238 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Bourbon County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,172 students), West Bourbon Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Uniontown High School, around 0.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, West Bourbon Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 257 students in 2018 compared to 263 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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