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Lyons, Kansas - 4 schools
An equity score of 78/100 ranks Lyons #16 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,413 per pupil, Lyons ranks #14 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
737
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$21,413
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Lyons operates 4 public schools serving 737 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 middle, 1 combined, 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 Rice County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,413 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 29 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 33.9% local, 58.3% state, and 7.9% 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 78/100, ranked #16 of 250 in Kansas against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 175.3:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 44.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 53.1% White, 41.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.6% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Lyons High School, with a diversity index of 56.0/100.
Its largest campus is Lyons High School, enrolling 221 students (32% of the district's total enrollment).
Lyons High School accounts for 30.0% of all Lyons student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Lyons-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Lyons has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 65.8% 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 approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Lyons student-counselor ratio is 175:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Lyons chronic absenteeism rate is 44.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.