Healy Public Schools is the first district to close in Kansas since 2011. The dissolution has highlighted concern for rural school closures due to population decline and new open enrollment policies.

Healy Unified School District 468 sought to use an average two-year lookback to get roughly $450,000, which covers about 30 students in the state’s per-pupil funding formula, despite not ...

In November, voters passed a ballot question to dissolve the Healy school district. The district only had two students enroll this year, down from 20 last year.