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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Lincoln Elem

Clay Center, Kansas

NCES ID
200489000822
District
Clay County
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Lincoln Elem is a public primary school in Clay Center, Kansas, run by Clay County. It enrols 384 students — the 53378th largest of 1,365 public schools in Kansas.

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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

384students

53378th nationally, tied with 147

Teachers

30.0FTE

41832nd nationally, tied with 2,155

Students per teacher

12.8students

26779th nationally, tied with 854

Free or reduced-price lunch

47.7%percent

52893rd nationally, tied with 96

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.

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Within Clay County

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Lincoln Elem384 students
  2. 2Clay Center Community High335 students
  3. 3Clay Center Community Middle246 students
  4. 4Garfield Elem151 students
  5. 5Wakefield Elem151 students
  6. 6Wakefield High71 students
  7. 7Elearn 379 Virtual School6 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Kansas median across 1,365 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+20.0%
  • Teachers+36.4%
  • Students per teacher−6.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−2.3%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.