Kansas City
Kansas Lost 16,000 Students to COVID. Then It Lost 7,000 More.
In most states, the pandemic was a dip. Kansas schools lost 16,114 students between 2019-20 and 2020-21, a 3.4% drop that aligned with the national pattern of families pulling children from public edu...
Where 86% of Students Are Hispanic: Inside Kansas's Meatpacking Corridor
In Liberal, 86 out of every 100 public school students are Hispanic. In Dodge City, 80. In Garden City, 67. These are not border towns. They sit in the southwest corner of Kansas, 300 miles from the n...
Kansas Lost 12,539 Students in Three Years
Kansas public schools gained 5,243 students across the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, clawing back a third of the 16,114-student crater left by the pandemic. Two years felt like a turning point. It...
In Turner-KC, a 43-Point Demographic Reversal
In 2005, two out of three students in Turner-Kansas City USD 202 were white. By 2026, fewer than one in four are. The 43.5 percentage-point collapse in white enrollment share is the largest in Kansas,...