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Elkhart, Kansas - 5 schools
An equity score of 27/100 ranks Elkhart #216 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $7,257 per pupil, Elkhart ranks #285 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,668
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$7,257
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Elkhart operates 5 public schools serving 1,668 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined, 2 high, 1 elementary 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 Morton County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $7,257 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 29 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 6.6% local, 89.1% state, and 4.3% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 27/100, ranked #216 of 250 in Kansas against a state average of 50, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 5 schools offering Advanced Placement (9 AP courses district-wide), a 369.6:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 26.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 51.7% White, 42.8% Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Elkhart Middle School, with a diversity index of 56.8/100.
Its largest campus is Kansas Connections Academy, enrolling 1,200 students (76% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Point Rock Alternative, at 20 students, a 60x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Kansas Connections Academy accounts for 71.9% of all Elkhart student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Elkhart a distant remainder — means Elkhart-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.
Elkhart school enrollment varies 60× across entities
Elkhart school enrollment ranges from 20 students (lowest) to 1,200 students (highest), a spread of 1,180 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Elkhart student-counselor ratio is 370:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Elkhart chronic absenteeism rate is 26.1% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Elkhart is typically wider than the Elkhart-aggregate figure suggests.