Kansas Education

Kansas Education

Kansas State Department of Education

Kansas Commissioner of Education :

District/School Information

Length of School Year: A minimum of 186 (K-11) and 181 (12) school days or 465 (K), 1116 (1-11), and 1086 (12) hours is required by Kansas state law.

Number of Public School Districts: There are 316 public school districts in Kansas.

Number of Public Schools: There are 1458 public schools in Kansas. ****

Number of Students Served in Public Schools: There are 474,489 public school students in Kansas. ****

Number of Teachers in Public Schools: There are 34,700 public school teachers in Kansas.****

Number of Charter Schools: There are 35 charter schools in Kansas.

Per Pupil Spending: Kansas spends $10,261 per pupil in public education. ****

Average Class Size: The average class size In Kansas is 13.7 students per 1 teacher. ****

% of Title I Schools: 76.6% of schools in Kansas are Title I Schools.****

% With Individualized Education Programs (IEP): 14.0% of students in Kansas are on IEP's. ****

% in Limited-English Proficiency Programs: 8.0% of students in Kansas are in limited-English Proficient Programs.****

% of Student Eligible for Free/Reduced Lunches: 45.7% of student in Kansas schools are eligible for free/reduced lunches.****

Ethnic/Racial Student Breakdown****

White: 68.8%

Black: 7.7%

Hispanic: 15.7%

Asian/Pacific Islander: 2.5%

American Indian/Alaskan Native: 1.2%

School Assessment Data

Graduation Rate: 84.5% of all students entering high school in Kansas graduate. **

ACT/SAT rank: 244 students per 1000 in Kansas had a score of 25+ on the ACT or a 1780+ on the SAT. ***

8th grade NAEP assessment scores:****

Math: 290 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Kansas. The U.S. average was 283.

Reading: 267 is the scaled score for 8th grade students in Kansas. The U.S. average was 264.

% of Students Who Attend College after High School: 65.4% of students in Kansas go on to attend some level of college. ***

Private Schools

Number of Private Schools: There are 210 private schools in Kansas.*

Number of Students Served in Private Schools: There are 41,966 private school students in Kansas.*

Teacher Pay

The average teacher pay for the state of Kansas was $42,696.67 in 2009.##

Each individual district in the state of Kansas negotiates teacher salaries and establishes their own teacher salary schedule.

The following is an example of a teacher salary schedule in Kansas provided by the Topeka Public Schools District.

*Data courtesy of Education Bug .

**Data courtesy of ED.gov

***Data courtesy of the NCHEMS Information Center for Higher Education Policy Making and Analysis

****Data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics

##Average salary courtesy of Teacher Salary Info