At $23,913 per pupil, Triplains ranks #6 of 286 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending (Kansas districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
69
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$23,913
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Triplains operates 2 public schools serving 69 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Kansas. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 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 Logan County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $23,913 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 29 of 286 Kansas districts by per-pupil spending. See how Kansas compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 39.6% local, 54.5% state, and 5.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 30:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 1.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.3% White, 0.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Winona Elem, enrolling 58 students (79% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Winona High, at 15 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Winona Elem accounts for 79.5% of all Triplains student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Triplains a distant remainder — means Triplains-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.
Triplains student-counselor ratio is 30:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Triplains chronic absenteeism rate is 1.7% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.