Regular local school district · Finney County
Garden City School District, KS: schools, enrollment and spending
Garden City School District runs 18 public schools with 7,106 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 13.8 students per teacher is about the same as the Kansas figure of 13.8.Listed in NCES data as "Garden City".
At a glance
- Schools
- 18
- Students
- 7,106
- Teachers (FTE)
- 514
- Students per teacher
- 13.8
- KS: 13.8 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1205 Fleming Street, Garden City, KS 67846
- Phone
- (620)805-7000
- County
- Finney County
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2006390
- State district ID
- KS-D0457
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,215
- School counselors (FTE)
- 13.0About 547 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 27.0
Students per teacher compared
This district13.8
Kansas13.8
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (7,370), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $112.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $9.4 million
- State revenue
- $78.0 million
- Local revenue
- $25.4 million
- Total spending
- $94.8 million
- Spending per pupil
- $12,865
- Salaries
- $54.5 million57.5% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $85.8 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 8.3%
- State: 69.1%
- Local: 22.5%
Kansas overall
- Federal: 8.8%
- State: 63.6%
- Local: 27.5%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$12,865
Kansas$16,437
United States$16,826
Schools in Garden City School District
By level: 2 high, 4 middle, 11 elementary, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Abe Hubert Elementary School | Elementary | K to 6 | 285 | 12.4 |
| Alta Brown Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 336 | 14.0 |
| Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr | Middle | 5 to 6 | 367 | 13.1 |
| Buffalo Jones Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 221 | 13.8 |
| Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr | Middle | 5 to 8 | 377 | 11.1 |
| Edith Scheuerman Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 204 | 12.0 |
| Florence Wilson Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 376 | 16.3 |
| Garden City High School | High | 9 to 12 | 1,946 | 15.2 |
| GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall | Other | K to 12 | 111 | 6.9 |
| Georgia Matthews Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 112 | 11.2 |
| Gertrude Walker Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 186 | 14.3 |
| Horace J. Good Middle School | Middle | 7 to 8 | 583 | 11.4 |
| Jennie Barker Elementary | Elementary | K to 6 | 163 | 16.3 |
| Jennie Wilson Elementary | Elementary | PK to 4 | 796 | 49.8 |
| Kenneth Henderson Middle | Middle | 7 to 8 | 425 | 13.7 |
| Plymell Elementary | Elementary | K to 6 | 117 | 13.0 |
| USD 457 Virtual Academy | High | 7 to 12 | 76 | |
| Victor Ornelas Elementary | Elementary | K to 4 | 351 | 13.5 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Finney County
- Holcomb School District 907 students
More in Kansas
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.