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Topeka, Kansas - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Department of Corrections operates 1 public schools serving 82 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Shawnee County.
a 111:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 43.2% White, 33.3% African American, 22.5% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lawrence Gardner High School, enrolling 111 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lawrence Gardner High School accounts for 100.0% of all Department of Corrections student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Department of Corrections a distant remainder — means Department of Corrections-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Department of Corrections has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 96.3% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Department of Corrections student-counselor ratio is 111:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
How many schools are in Department of Corrections?
Department of Corrections has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 82 students.
What is the demographic composition of Department of Corrections?
Department of Corrections students are 43.2% White, 33.3% African American, 22.5% Hispanic or Latino, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.