Topeka Public Schools
Kansas Lost 16,000 Students to COVID. Then It Lost 5,000 More.
Correction, July 24, 2026: An earlier version of this article understated Kansas enrollment in every year it reported. The Kansas State Department of Education suppresses any published figure covering...
Retraction: Our Statewide Special Education Rate for Kansas Was Not Supported by the Data
Retraction, July 24, 2026. On April 27, 2026, The KSEdTribune published an article headlined "One in Seven Kansas Students Now Receives Special Education." It reported that 65,849 Kansas students, 14....
Kansas Lost 12,734 Students in Three Years
Correction, July 24, 2026. Every enrollment number in this article has been recalculated and every one of them changed. The original version used district totals that our data processing built by addi...
Kansas Publishes 2025-26 Enrollment Data
The number that landed on superintendent desks across Kansas in fall 2025 was 471,334. That is 5,497 fewer students than last year, 12,734 fewer than three years ago, and the lowest headcount the stat...