Thursday, August 27, 2026

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Shay Demlow Wants Eureka's Size to Be Its Strength

Shay Demlow's case for Eureka does not start with a program or a plan. It starts with the interview.

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...

Piper-Kansas City Grew for 20 Straight Years, the Longest Run in Kansas

For 20 consecutive school years, Piper-Kansas City grew. From 2005-06 through 2024-25 the district on the western edge of Wyandotte County added students every single year, going from 1,391 to 2,831. ...

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...