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Goodland, Kansas - 5 schools
An equity score of 41/100 ranks Goodland #172 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,591 per pupil, Goodland ranks #195 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
964
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$13,591
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Goodland operates 5 public schools serving 964 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 1 elementary, 1 high 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 Sherman County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,591 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 27.3% local, 66.2% state, and 6.5% 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 41/100, ranked #172 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.
a 368:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 33.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 64.7% White, 29.4% Hispanic or Latino, 3.3% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Goodland Virtual School, with a diversity index of 57.2/100.
Its largest campus is Goodland Jr-Sr. High School, enrolling 388 students (45% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Goodland Learning Center, at 4 students, a 97x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Goodland Jr-Sr. High School accounts for 40.2% of all Goodland student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Goodland-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.
Goodland school enrollment varies 97× across entities
Goodland school enrollment ranges from 4 students (lowest) to 388 students (highest), a spread of 384 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.
Goodland student-counselor ratio is 368:1 — 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.
Goodland chronic absenteeism rate is 33.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.