List of unified school districts in Kansas explained

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.

All school districts in Kansas are independent governments. Kansas has no public K-12 school systems dependent on another layer of government like a county government or a municipal government.[1]

Butler County

Chase County

Cherokee County

Clay County

Coffey County

Comanche County

Crawford County

Decatur County

Dickinson County

Edwards County

Geary County

Gove County

Graham County

Grant County

Gray County

Greeley County

Greenwood County

Hamilton County

Harper County

Harvey County

Hodgeman County

Jewell County

Johnson County

Kingman County

Kiowa County

Lane County

Logan County

Miami County

Mitchell County

Morris County

Norton County

Ottawa County

Pottawatomie County

Rawlins County

Reno County

Rice County

Riley County

Rooks County

Rush County

Russell County

Scott County

Sedgwick County

Seward County

Sheridan County

Sherman County

Stafford County

Stanton County

Sumner County

Thomas County

Trego County

Wabaunsee County

Washington County

Wichita County

Woodson County

Wyandotte County

District changes

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).[2] 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.[3]

The following list is not complete.[4]

Renamed

Dissolved

Consolidated

This lists school districts that merged to form a new school district.[4] The number of consolidations is half the size of this list because every district is listed on the left side.

See also

External links

State
KSDE Documents
KSDE Maps

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kansas. U.S. Census Bureau. 2024-11-01.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ_RAAAAMAAJ&pg=1 Your School District: The Report of the National Commission on School District Reorganization; National Education Association; 286 pages; 1948.
  3. Web site: Administration of Unified School Districts in Kansas . Kansas State Department of Public Instruction . https://web.archive.org/web/20200710105315/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED037897.pdf . July 10, 2020 . January 1967 . live.
  4. Web site: School consolidations in Kansas for past decade . . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211143251/https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2011/07/25/school-consolidations-kansas-past-decade/16462092007/ . December 11, 2023 . July 24, 2011 . live.
  5. Web site: USD 330 adopts new name . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160911105643/http://cjonline.com/stories/112003/swn_usd330.shtml . September 11, 2016 . November 20, 2003 . dead.
  6. Web site: Healy voters OK annexation with USD 466 . Scott County Record . https://web.archive.org/web/20241108032558/https://etypeproductionstorage1.blob.core.windows.net/$web/Production_Prod/Publications/329/thumbnail.jpg . November 8, 2024 . November 7, 2024 . dead.

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