School for Blind operates 2 public schools serving 13 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 Wyandotte County.
The funding mix is 6.1% local, 86.3% state, and 7.6% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 11.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 64.3% White, 17.4% Hispanic or Latino, 6.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is School for Blind High, enrolling 27 students (71% of the district's total enrollment).
School for Blind High accounts for 71.1% of all School for Blind student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of School for Blind a distant remainder — means School for Blind-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
School for Blind chronic absenteeism rate is 11.1% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
School for Blind has 2 schools, including 2 combined. Total enrollment is 13 students.
What is the demographic composition of School for Blind?
School for Blind students are 64.3% White, 17.4% Hispanic or Latino, 6.4% African American, 4.5% Asian, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.