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Topeka Public Schools

Topeka, Kansas · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

12,623
Students enrolled
27
Public schools
1,024
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.3:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 708
  • Kindergarten 897
  • Grade 1 883
  • Grade 2 948
  • Grade 3 898
  • Grade 4 877
  • Grade 5 896
  • Grade 6 917
  • Grade 7 854
  • Grade 8 896
  • Grade 9 933
  • Grade 10 946
  • Grade 11 950
  • Grade 12 1,006
  • Ungraded 14

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 37%
  • White 32%
  • Two or more races 15%
  • Black or African American 15%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Asian <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

76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 8,549 of 11,311 students in the 24 of its 25 schools that report
  • Free lunch 66%
  • Reduced-price lunch 10%

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

$16,981 spent per student on day-to-day operations Kansas median: $15,993 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $9,204
  • Support services $6,835
  • Other (food service, etc.) $942

Where the money comes from

  • Local 13%
  • State 68%
  • Federal 19%

Total revenue $238.2 milliontotal spending $227.2 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)

City: Midsize

Total staff (FTE)

2,022

District office

624 SW 24th, Topeka KS 66611

County

Shawnee County

Official website

NCES District ID

2012260

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About Topeka Public Schools

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

Topeka Public Schools, Unified School District No. 501, accepts the challenge to equip our children with the tools they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Topeka Public Schools (TPS) is a recognized leader in education, particularly in the areas of outcomes-based education, curriculum monitoring, special education and the middle school movement.
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