Public school / Primary
Cottonwood Elementary
Andover, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 200336001610
- District
- Andover
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cottonwood Elementary is a public primary school in Andover, Kansas, run by Andover. It enrols 417 students — the 48454th 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
417
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
17.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
29.0%
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 Andover
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.
- 1Andover Ecademy3,223 students
- 2Andover High1,014 students
- 3Andover Central High School856 students
- 4Andover Middle School726 students
- 5Andover Central Middle School601 students
- 6Robert M. Martin Elementary506 students
- 7Prairie Creek Elementary481 students
- 8Wheatland Elementary433 students
- Enrollment+30.3%
- Teachers+9.1%
- Students per teacher+27.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−40.6%
Where this sits
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