This is a list of unified school districts (USD) in the state of Kansas. It is grouped by county, based on the headquarters location of each school district. All school districts in Kansas are independent governments. Kansas has no public K-12 school systems dependent on another layer of government like a county government or a municipal government.

Allen County

Anderson County

Atchison County

Barber County

Barton County

Bourbon County

Brown County

Butler County

Chase County

Chautauqua County

Cherokee County

Cheyenne County

Clark County

Clay County

Cloud County

Coffey County

Comanche County

Cowley County

Crawford County

Decatur County

Dickinson County

Doniphan County

Douglas County

Edwards County

Elk County

Ellis County

Ellsworth County

Finney County

Ford County

Franklin County

Geary County

Gove County

Graham County

Grant County

Gray County

Greeley County

Greenwood County

Hamilton County

Harper County

Harvey County

Haskell County

Hodgeman County

Jackson County

Jefferson County

Jewell County

Johnson County

Kearny County

Kingman County

Kiowa County

Labette County

Lane County

Leavenworth County

Lincoln County

Linn County

Logan County

Lyon County

Marion County

Marshall County

McPherson County

Meade County

Miami County

Mitchell County

Montgomery County

Morris County

Morton County

Nemaha County

Neosho County

Ness County

Norton County

Osage County

Osborne County

Ottawa County

Pawnee County

Phillips County

Pottawatomie County

Pratt County

Rawlins County

Reno County

Republic County

Rice County

Riley County

Rooks County

Rush County

Russell County

Saline County

Scott County

Sedgwick County

Seward County

Shawnee County

Sheridan County

Sherman County

Smith County

Stafford County

Stanton County

Stevens County

Sumner County

Thomas County

Trego County

Wabaunsee County

Wallace County

Washington County

Wichita County

Wilson County

Woodson County

Wyandotte County

District changes

The number of students in rural communities dropped significantly across the 20th century. As farming technology progressed from animal power to small tractors towards large tractors over time, it allowed a farmer to support significantly more farm land. In turn, this led to fewer farm families, which led to fewer rural students. In combination with a loss of young men during foreign wars and rural flight, all of these caused an incremental population shrinkage of rural communities over time. In 1945 (after World War II), the School Reorganization Act in Kansas caused the consolidation of thousands of rural school districts in Kansas (mostly one room rural school houses). In 1963, the School Unification Act in Kansas caused the further consolidatation of thousands of tiny school districts into hundreds of larger Unified School Districts. The following list is not complete.

Renamed

Dissolved

Consolidated

This lists school districts that merged to form a new school district. The number of consolidations is half the size of this list because every district is listed on the left side.