School for Deaf operates 2 public schools serving 117 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 Johnson County.
The funding mix is 10.8% local, 80.6% state, and 8.7% 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 34.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 51.1% White, 18.6% Hispanic or Latino, 14.9% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is School for Deaf High, enrolling 62 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
School for Deaf High accounts for 52.5% of all School for Deaf student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of School for Deaf a distant remainder — means School for Deaf-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 Deaf chronic absenteeism rate is 34.7% — 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.
School for Deaf has 2 schools, including 2 combined. Total enrollment is 117 students.
What is the demographic composition of School for Deaf?
School for Deaf students are 51.1% White, 18.6% Hispanic or Latino, 14.9% African American, 4.2% Asian, averaged across 2 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.