Posted Date: 05/14/2024
With just under 300 students split among a high school in Little River and lower grades in Windom, USD 444 can boast of high academic achievement. On the 2022 state reading and math assessments, . . .
Posted Date: 05/07/2024
Lyons USD 405 is a study in how to have success despite great challenges. Lyons’ number of students from low-income families plus students with disabilities is 94.6 percent, one of the highest rates . . .
Posted Date: 05/01/2024
Fort Leavenworth USD 207 is unique in many ways. It’s the only public school system in Kansas entirely on a military base, it does not have a high school, and its board of education members are . . .
Posted Date: 04/24/2024
You can’t get any farther into northeast Kansas than Riverside USD 114, a cookie-cutter-shaped school district bounded on the north, east and south by the Missouri river where it cuts off the . . .
Posted Date: 04/16/2024
Teacher salaries are an important consideration as districts seek to hire and retain staff. Last year, the total average Kansas teacher salary, including supplemental pay and fringe benefits, was . . .
Posted Date: 04/15/2024
As a small community facing big changes, Minneola USD 219 is working to keep up high performance. Located 20 miles south of Dodge City, Minneola has 250 students and an average high-needs student . . .
Posted Date: 04/10/2024
Haviland USD 474 is one of the smallest districts in the state with just 119 students and only grades kindergarten through eighth. Their reading and math results are among the highest in Kansas. In . . .
Posted Date: 04/02/2024
One path to success is sometimes to turn perceived weaknesses into strengths. With about 330 students in a county-wide district on the border in southwest Kansas, Comanche County USD 300 leaders . . .
Posted Date: 04/02/2024
A new survey of Kansas teacher attitudes offers ideas on how to help keep educators in the profession at a time when most school leaders say finding and keeping teachers is one of their greatest . . .
Posted Date: 03/26/2024
Hays USD 489 has the largest enrollment in northwest Kansas with around 3,100 students. It is also getting some of the highest student success results in the state when considering its size and . . .