Public school / Primary
Bennington Elem
Bennington, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 200396000164
- District
- Twin Valley
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bennington Elem is a public primary school in Bennington, Kansas, run by Twin Valley. It enrols 236 students — the 73972nd largest of 1,365 public schools in Kansas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
236
Teachers
16.0
Students per teacher
14.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
41.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Twin Valley
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Bennington Elem236 students
- 2Bennington Junior High/High School205 students
- 3Tescott Elem95 students
- 4Tescott Junior High/High School70 students
- Enrollment−26.3%
- Teachers−27.3%
- Students per teacher+8.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−15.0%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory