Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 3

Thunder Ridge Elementary, Kensington, KS

Thunder Ridge Elementary is a public elementary school in Kensington, part of Thunder Ridge Schools. It enrolled 38 students in 2024-25, with 7.6 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "THUNDER RIDGE ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 38
Teachers (FTE): 5.0
Students per teacher: 7.6
Grades: K to 3

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 7.4. The Kansas average across schools is 13.8. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school7.6

District7.4

Kansas13.8

United States15.3

School details

Address: 128 S Kansas Street, Kensington, KS 66951
Phone: (785)476-3241
District: Thunder Ridge Schools
County: Smith County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 200034601903

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 16
Reduced-price lunch: 7
Free or reduced-price lunch: 2360.5% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.