About Topeka Public Schools
Topeka Public Schools is a public school system serving Shawnee County, Kansas, based in Topeka. It serves 12,623 students across 27 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #6 largest of Kansas’s 289 school systems.
Size and structure
Topeka Public Schools enrolls 12,623 students in 27 schools — an average of about 468 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #6 of 289 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Topeka Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (12,623 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
Topeka Public Schools employs about 1,024 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 12.3:1 — below the Kansas average of about 13.3:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 2,022.
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 Topeka 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 Topeka 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.
Topeka Public Schools vs. Kansas
See every Kansas district side by side in the Kansas directory.
Look up Topeka 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):