County / FIPS 20159
Rice County
Kansas
Rice County runs 11 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
11
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
726
Rice County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
9,350
Median household income
$63,925
Poverty rate
Not published
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$104,600
Median gross rent
$753
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.9%
2 figures are withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Rice County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$81.3M
Per resident
$8,626
Change since FY2021
−4%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $85M |
| 2022 | $113M |
| 2023 | $62M |
| 2024 | $81M |
| 2025 | $81M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Rice County ranks 2535th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Rice County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital District #1 of Rice County | Lyons | Not rated |
Public schools in Rice County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Elem | Chase-Raymond | Chase | 68 |
| Little River High | Little River | Little River | 96 |
| Lyons Central Elementary | Lyons | Lyons | 157 |
| Lyons High School | Lyons | Lyons | 212 |
| Lyons Middle School | Lyons | Lyons | 187 |
| Lyons Park Elementary | Lyons | Lyons | 181 |
| Sterling Grade School | Sterling | Sterling | 260 |
| Sterling Junior High/Senior High | Sterling | Sterling | 214 |
| Chase High | Chase-Raymond | Chase | 44 |
| Little River Junior High | Little River | Little River | 40 |
| Raymond Jr High | Chase-Raymond | Chase | 33 |