About Chanute Public Schools
Chanute Public Schools is a public school system serving Neosho County, Kansas, based in Chanute. It serves 1,714 students across 3 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a town: remote district. By enrollment it is the #55 largest of Kansas’s 289 school systems.
Size and structure
Chanute Public Schools enrolls 1,714 students in 3 schools — an average of about 571 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #55 of 289 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Chanute Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,714 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Chanute Public Schools employs about 132 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1 — below the Kansas average of about 13.3:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 226.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Kansas funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Chanute Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
The Kansas Report Card, from the Kansas State Department of Education, reports assessment results, graduation and broader outcome measures (kindergarten readiness, Individual Plans of Study, postsecondary success). Look up Chanute Public Schools on the Kansas Report Card.
Accreditation status
Kansas accredits districts through its own state system, KESA (Kansas Education Systems Accreditation), administered by KSDE at the system level — not a private accreditor; the current KESA 2.0 process began in 2024. See the KSDE accreditation portal.
Chanute Public Schools vs. Kansas
See every Kansas district side by side in the Kansas directory.
Look up Chanute Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):