List of unified school districts in Kansas

Summary

This is a list of unified school districts (USD) in the state of Kansas. It is grouped by county, based on the headquarters location of each school district.

Allen County edit

  • Humboldt USD 258
  • Iola USD 257
  • Marmaton Valley USD 256

Anderson County edit

Atchison County edit

Barber County edit

  • Barber County North USD 254
  • South Barber USD 255

Barton County edit

Bourbon County edit

Brown County edit

  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • South Brown County USD 430

Butler County edit

Chase County edit

Chautauqua County edit

  • Cedar Vale USD 285
  • Chautauqua County USD 286

Cherokee County edit

  • Baxter Springs USD 508
  • Columbus USD 493
  • Galena USD 499
  • Riverton USD 404

Cheyenne County edit

  • Cheylin USD 103
  • St. Francis USD 297

Clark County edit

Clay County edit

Cloud County edit

Coffey County edit

Comanche County edit

Cowley County edit

Crawford County edit

Decatur County edit

Dickinson County edit

Doniphan County edit

Douglas County edit

Edwards County edit

  • Kinsley–Offerle USD 347
  • Lewis USD 502 (K-6)

Elk County edit

Ellis County edit

Ellsworth County edit

Finney County edit

Ford County edit

Franklin County edit

  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Ottawa USD 290
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • West Franklin USD 287

Geary County edit

Gove County edit

  • Grinnell USD 291 (5-8)
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Wheatland USD 292 (9-12)

Graham County edit

Grant County edit

  • Ulysses USD 214

Gray County edit

  • Cimarron–Ensign USD 102
  • Copeland USD 476
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Montezuma USD 371

Greeley County edit

Greenwood County edit

Hamilton County edit

Harper County edit

Harvey County edit

Haskell County edit

  • Satanta USD 507
  • Sublette USD 374

Hodgeman County edit

Jackson County edit

Jefferson County edit

Jewell County edit

Johnson County edit

Kearny County edit

Kingman County edit

Kiowa County edit

Labette County edit

Lane County edit

Leavenworth County edit

Lincoln County edit

Linn County edit

Logan County edit

  • Oakley USD 274
  • Triplains USD 275

Lyon County edit

Marion County edit

Marshall County edit

McPherson County edit

Meade County edit

  • Fowler USD 225
  • Meade USD 226

Miami County edit

Mitchell County edit

Montgomery County edit

Morris County edit

Morton County edit

  • Elkhart USD 218
  • Rolla USD 217

Nemaha County edit

Neosho County edit

Ness County edit

Norton County edit

Osage County edit

Osborne County edit

  • Osborne USD 392

Ottawa County edit

Pawnee County edit

  • Fort Larned USD 495
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496

Phillips County edit

Pottawatomie County edit

Pratt County edit

Rawlins County edit

Reno County edit

Republic County edit

Rice County edit

Riley County edit

Rooks County edit

  • Palco USD 269
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Stockton USD 271

Rush County edit

Russell County edit

Saline County edit

Scott County edit

  • Scott County USD 466

Sedgwick County edit

Seward County edit

Shawnee County edit

Sheridan County edit

Sherman County edit

  • Goodland USD 352

Smith County edit

  • Smith Center USD 237

Stafford County edit

  • Macksville USD 351
  • St. John–Hudson USD 350
  • Stafford USD 349

Stanton County edit

  • Stanton County USD 452

Stevens County edit

  • Hugoton USD 210
  • Moscow USD 209

Sumner County edit

Thomas County edit

Trego County edit

  • WaKeeney USD 208

Wabaunsee County edit

Wallace County edit

  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Weskan USD 242

Washington County edit

Wichita County edit

  • Leoti–Wichita County USD 467

Wilson County edit

  • Altoona–Midway USD 387
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Neodesha USD 461

Woodson County edit

Wyandotte County edit

District changes edit

The number of students in rural communities dropped significantly across the 20th century. As farming technology progressed from animal power to small tractors towards large tractors over time, it allowed a farmer to support significantly more farm land. In turn, this led to fewer farm families, which led to fewer rural students. In combination with a loss of young men during foreign wars and rural flight, all of these caused an incremental population shrinkage of rural communities over time. In 1945 (after World War II), the School Reorganization Act in Kansas caused the consolidation of thousands of rural school districts in Kansas (mostly one room rural school houses).[1] In 1963, the School Unification Act in Kansas caused the further consolidatation of thousands of tiny school districts into hundreds of larger Unified School Districts.[2]

The following list is not complete.[3]

Renamed edit

Dissolved edit

Consolidated edit

This lists school districts that merged to form a new school district.[3] The number of consolidations is half the size of this list because every district is listed on the left side.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Your School District: The Report of the National Commission on School District Reorganization; National Education Association; 286 pages; 1948.
  2. ^ "Administration of Unified School Districts in Kansas" (PDF). Kansas State Department of Public Instruction. January 1967. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 10, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "School consolidations in Kansas for past decade". The Topeka Capital-Journal. July 24, 2011. Archived from the original on December 11, 2023.
  4. ^ "USD 330 adopts new name". The Topeka Capital-Journal. November 20, 2003. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016.

External links edit

State
  • Kansas State Department Of Education, KSDE
  • Kansas State High School Activities Association, KSHSAA
KSDE Documents
  • School Districts by County, KSDE
  • Schools in Alphabetical Order, KSDE
KSDE Maps
  • Kansas School District Boundary Maps: 2004, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020, KSDE
  • School District Maps, KDOT