Public school / Primary
Highland Park Central
Topeka, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 201226001445
- District
- Topeka Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Highland Park Central is a public primary school in Topeka, Kansas, run by Topeka Public Schools. It enrols 308 students — the 64489th 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
308
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
11.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
91.9%
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 Topeka Public Schools
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.
- 1Topeka High1,514 students
- 2Topeka West High1,085 students
- 3Highland Park High857 students
- 4Jardine Elementary743 students
- 5Ross Elementary558 students
- 6Jardine Middle School542 students
- 7Eisenhower Middle School486 students
- 8Landon Middle School457 students
- Enrollment−3.8%
- Teachers+18.2%
- Students per teacher−13.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+88.3%
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