Salina School District 鈥� Saline County, KS: Schools & Enrollment

Key statistics

6,737

Students enrolled

13

Public schools

516

Classroom teachers (FTE)

13.1:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Pre-K 375
Kindergarten 435
Grade 1 467
Grade 2 524
Grade 3 494
Grade 4 503
Grade 5 461
Grade 6 484
Grade 7 465
Grade 8 494
Grade 9 522
Grade 10 510
Grade 11 503
Grade 12 481
Ungraded 19

By race/ethnicity

White 55%
Hispanic/Latino 28%
Two or more races 11%
Black or African American 3%
Asian 2%
American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

62% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 3,982 of 6,441 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 51%
Reduced-price lunch 11%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$20,224 spent per student on day-to-day operations Kansas median: $15,993 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $12,373
Support services $7,038
Other (food service, etc.) $813

Where the money comes from

Local 33%
State 51%
Federal 16%

Total revenue $162.0 milliontotal spending $147.2 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Town: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

1,455

District office

1511 Gypsum, Salina KS 67402

Phone

(785) 309-4700

County

Saline County

Official website

NCES District ID

2011370

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About Salina

Description provided by the district or community 鈥� not part of the NCES dataset.

Salina USD 305 is the second largest employer in Salina and a key component of the community鈥檚 economic vitality. The city was founded in 1858 with the motto "Religion first, Education second, Business third." The community sits in the center of Kansas at the interchange of interstates I35 and I70. This positions the city of 50,000 as a regional hub for business, medical services and cultural activities.