Kansas Public Schools

Kansas is the #29 largest school system in the United States, serving 480,064 students across 1,379 public schools. There are 51 Blue Ribbon Schools, 36 magnet schools, 25 charter schools, and 10 special education schools. The student ethnicity breakdown in the state is show below:

Student by Ethnicity

(KS) School Average
% American Indian		 1%
% Asian		 2%
% Hispanic		 16%
% Black		 8%
% White		 69%
Unknown		 4%

Kansas Public Schools by County

County
# High
# Middle
# Elementary
1. Allen County 3 2 5
2. Anderson County 2 - 6
3. Atchison County 3 2 3
4. Barber County 2 - 2
5. Barton County 4 3 9
6. Bourbon County 2 1 3
7. Brown County 3 3 3
8. Butler County 10 10 23
9. Chase County 1 - 1
10. Chautauqua County 2 - 2
11. Cherokee County 4 4 8
12. Cheyenne County 2 - 2
13. Clark County 2 1 2
14. Clay County 2 2 2
15. Cloud County 4 1 3
16. Coffey County 4 2 5
17. Comanche County 1 1 1
18. Cowley County 6 5 15
19. Crawford County 5 3 9
20. Decatur County 1 - 1
21. Dickinson County 6 5 10
22. Doniphan County 4 1 5
23. Douglas County 5 7 21
24. Edwards County 1 - 2
25. Elk County 2 1 2
26. Ellis County 3 2 7
27. Ellsworth County 2 1 3
28. Finney County 2 6 12
29. Ford County 3 4 11
30. Franklin County 5 5 10
31. Geary County 1 2 14
32. Gove County 2 1 3
33. Graham County 1 - 1
34. Grant County 2 1 2
35. Gray County 3 2 5
36. Greeley County 1 1 2
37. Greenwood County 3 - 3
38. Hamilton County 1 - 1
39. Harper County 2 - 3
40. Harvey County 6 4 9
41. Haskell County 2 1 2
42. Hodgeman County 2 1 2
43. Jackson County 3 2 4
44. Jefferson County 6 3 5
45. Jewell County 1 1 1
46. Johnson County 20 31 107
47. Kearny County 2 2 2
48. Kingman County 4 3 4
49. Kiowa County 2 - 3
50. Labette County 5 3 12
51. Lane County 2 - 2
52. Leavenworth County 6 8 14
53. Lincoln County 2 - 1
54. Linn County 3 1 4
55. Logan County 2 1 2
56. Lyon County 4 3 11
57. Marion County 5 4 6
58. Marshall County 4 - 5
59. Mcpherson County 6 5 11
60. Meade County 2 - 3
61. Miami County 4 3 8
62. Mitchell County 1 2 3
63. Montgomery County 5 2 7
64. Morris County 2 - 3
65. Morton County 4 3 4
66. Nemaha County 6 1 6
67. Neosho County 3 3 3
68. Ness County 2 - 3
69. Norton County 2 1 2
70. Osage County 5 3 6
71. Osborne County 3 - 3
72. Ottawa County 3 - 3
73. Pawnee County 3 3 5
74. Phillips County 2 3 2
75. Pottawatomie County 4 1 7
76. Pratt County 3 2 4
77. Rawlins County 1 - 1
78. Reno County 8 8 20
79. Republic County 2 2 2
80. Rice County 6 4 5
81. Riley County 3 3 10
82. Rooks County 3 1 3
83. Rush County 2 1 2
84. Russell County 1 1 3
85. Saline County 4 2 10
86. Scott County 1 1 1
87. Sedgwick County 29 35 100
88. Seward County 2 5 9
89. Shawnee County 12 13 42
90. Sheridan County 1 - 2
91. Sherman County 1 1 2
92. Smith County 2 - 2
93. Stafford County 3 1 4
94. Stanton County 1 1 1
95. Stevens County 3 2 3
96. Sumner County 7 7 14
97. Thomas County 3 2 2
98. Trego County 1 - 1
99. Wabaunsee County 2 3 3
100. Wallace County 2 - 2
101. Washington County 3 1 4
102. Wichita County 1 - 1
103. Wilson County 3 3 4
104. Woodson County 1 - 1
105. Wyandotte County 10 13 42

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