Winfield Scott Elem

Winfield Scott Elem is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Fort Scott, Kansas, one of the schools within Fort Scott, with 311 students on its rolls from grades K through 2.

Across the 5 schools in Fort Scott (1,731 students total), Winfield Scott Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Winfield Scott Elem shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Bourbon County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Winfield Scott Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bourbon County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bourbon County put the typical household earns roughly $59,238 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Bourbon County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,172 students), of which Winfield Scott Elem is one.

The closest other public school is Fort Scott Sr High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Winfield Scott Elem.

Winfield Scott Elem operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Winfield Scott Elem's enrollment has declined 32% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 311). White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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