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Madison, Kansas - 2 schools
An equity score of 84/100 ranks Madison-Virgil #8 of 250 districts in Kansas (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,637 per pupil, Madison-Virgil ranks #72 of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
245
Total Enrollment
2
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$16,637
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Madison-Virgil operates 2 public schools serving 245 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 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 Greenwood County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,637 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 285 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 18.4% local, 72.0% state, and 9.6% 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 84/100, ranked #8 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 677.9:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 17.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.8% White, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Madison Elem, enrolling 130 students (55% of the district's total enrollment).
Madison Elem accounts for 53.1% of all Madison-Virgil student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Madison-Virgil a distant remainder — means Madison-Virgil-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.
Madison-Virgil student-counselor ratio is 678:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Madison-Virgil chronic absenteeism rate is 17.5% — 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 Madison-Virgil is typically wider than the Madison-Virgil-aggregate figure suggests.