https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/schools Rural Schools and Health resources related to rural health, with information provided by the Rural Health Information Hub en Copyright 2026 Rural Health Information Hub https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-community-schools-west-kern-county-report Discusses access challenges related to academic, social, and mental health supports in rural schools and provides a case study of a community school approach in California. Provides findings, lessons, collaborative strategies, and sustainability efforts from the West Kern Consortium for Full-Service Community Schools. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/27427 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:42:52 -0600 https://ies.ed.gov/sites/default/files/nces/document/2026/02/FSCSExpandingReach.pdf Examines the impact of the U.S. Department of Education's Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) grant program to expand community schools in rural and high-poverty areas. Discusses the impact of community schools to provide health and human services supports to students in high-need areas as well as information about and location of new FSCS grantees. Includes data on percentage of 2023 FSCSs that are rural versus non-rural. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/27389 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:28:21 -0600 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12511941/ Examines community perspectives on school-based hearing screenings completed via telemedicine as an adaptation to provide auditory healthcare access to rural communities. Provides feedback from 21 semi-structured interviews from parents, school staff, and care providers in Appalachian counties regarding childhood hearing loss, screening and follow-up processes, integration of telemedicine, and more. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/27376 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:26:53 -0600 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/3/540 Examines perspectives on Universal Free School Meals (UFSM) among students living in rural Maine. Utilizes survey and interview data among middle and high school students to analyze student characteristics, meal preferences, and perceptions of school breakfasts and lunches. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/27350 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:35:08 -0600 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDLR3EhTbG8 Webinar recording discusses how Eastern Oklahoma Medical Center implemented a school-based telemedicine program to improve access to care in rural and low-income Oklahoma communities. Details challenges and lessons learned related to billing and policy development, communication with parents, and partnerships with rural school nurses and administrators. Transcript available below the video description. -- Heartland Telehealth Resource Center https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/27299 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:01:06 -0600 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jrh.70098 Presents a study on the role school-based health centers (SBHCs) play in providing care to children in rural counties and explores the potential for SBHCs to function as patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) for rural students. Highlights findings from interviews in four rural counties in New York and identifies challenges for SBHCs functioning as a PCMH. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/27034 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:28:48 -0600 https://nrea.net/wrm-2025/ Describes educational, social, and health outcomes associated with rural schools. Includes state-level data, rankings, and comparisons to the U.S. as a whole. -- National Rural Education Association https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/26873 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:46:51 -0600 https://afterschoolalliance.org/documents/AA3PM-2025/AA3PM-Lost-Opportunity-Afterschool-in-Demand-But-Out-of-Reach-for-Many-Full-Report-2025.pdf Provides information about afterschool programs and their demand, affordability, accessibility, and availability. Discusses benefits of afterschool programs and policy to support them. Includes rural, suburban, and urban comparisons related to program enrollment and perceived benefits. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/26657 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:42:22 -0500 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josh.70058 Examines training programs for rural school nutrition professionals (SNPs) that include flexible scheduling and considerations related to staff and resource shortages. Utilizes observational data and pre- and post-training evaluations to analyze SNP knowledge and confidence to implement new culinary behaviors after the virtual and in-person flexible training format. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/26215 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:26:45 -0500 https://headstart.gov/video/spotlighting-programs-panel-discussion-exceptional-nutrition-service-delivery A recorded webinar that focuses on successful nutrition service delivery in Head Start programs across the United States. Highlights actionable strategies from the various food delivery services, including programming specific to rural, remote, and geographically dispersed areas. -- Administration for Children and Families https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/25766 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:34:32 -0500 https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rural-monitor/healthy-louisiana-schools Features two Delta States Rural Development Network grantees working to improve children's health in rural Louisiana schools. A high school program focuses on preventing diabetes and an elementary school program offers nutrition and physical activity opportunities to students. -- Rural Health Information Hub https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/23946 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:21:20 -0500 https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA900/RRA956-26/RAND_RRA956-26.pdf Discusses the rise of chronic absenteeism in schools in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the various causes, such as mental health, flexibility of remote learning, and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic challenges. Provides interview and survey data from 190 school district leaders and includes information on the percentage of districts experiencing chronic absenteeism and at what level; the characteristics of districts, including region, size, and urbanicity; and district methods of reducing chronic absenteeism. -- RAND Corporation https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/23944 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:06:29 -0500 https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2024/2024145.pdf Presents information on issues such as crime, safety, use of illegal substances, and bullying in schools utilizing multiple national datasets. Includes statistics on school shootings, non-fatal violent crime, school reports on crime and discipline problems, and more. Provides statistics on percentage of schools offering mental health services as well as prevalence of bullying broken down by city, suburban, town, and rural. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/23708 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:53:46 -0500 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0303660 Describes a study protocol to evaluate the impact of school-based health centers (SBHCs) on healthcare utilization, health outcomes, and education in rural, disadvantaged New York counties. Discusses risk factor identification and data collection at the individual, school district, and community levels. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/23304 Wed, 22 May 2024 15:32:22 -0500 https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/transforming-schools-supporting-rural-education-gains-through-community-schools Discusses how community schools are beneficial to rural areas and can provide healthcare access, meals, tutoring, career readiness opportunities, and more. Provides examples of the impact of community schools in rural California school districts, student achievement data, and additional resources about community schools. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/23144 Thu, 02 May 2024 14:19:18 -0500 https://healthinschools.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs6156/files/2024-04/migrant-brief-final.pdf Report discusses the physical, social, and emotional challenges faced by the children of migrant workers pursuing an education. Highlights a number of stressors migrant students face such as language barriers, missed school, poverty, and other social determinants of health. Provides a number of resources from federal programs ans nonprofit organizations. -- George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/22987 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:54:43 -0500 https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2024/2024109.pdf Provides data tables related to bullying in schools. Includes information on type of bullying, demographics of bullied students, impacts of bullying, and more. Provides breakdowns of bullying variables by school size, region, and city, suburb, town, or rural location. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/22724 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:09:48 -0600 https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/spp/results.asp Provides interactive data for elementary, middle, high, and combined-grade public schools. Includes topics such as learning recovery, school facilities, staff vacancies, afterschool programs, food services, mental health, school crime and safety, and more. Allows user to view data by region, student demographics, and school location, level, or size. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/22694 Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:41:25 -0600 https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2024/2024043.pdf Reports on crime and violence in U.S. public schools based on data from the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). Includes programs and practices in schools to prevent crime as well as data tables on recorded incidents of crime, threats and physical attacks, hate crimes, substance abuse issues, mental health factors, and more. Include breakdowns of crime and violence variables by city, suburb, town, or rural location. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/22369 Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:45:21 -0600 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/lba/high-school-graduation-rates-rural Provides 2019-2020 public high school student graduation rates according to locale of city, suburban, town, or rural. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/21378 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:17:02 -0500 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/lcc/english-learners-rural Provides 2019 data to show percentages of students who are English language learners or who have disabilities according to city, suburban, town, or rural locale. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/21377 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:10:58 -0500 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/lfa/family-characteristics-rural Provides 2019 data on the percentages of children aged 5 to 17 enrolled in school, the highest education level of their parents, and their family structure by locale, with breakdowns by city, suburban, town, and rural. Includes poverty levels of children by state. -- National Center for Education Statistics https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/21375 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:58:24 -0500 https://ippsr.msu.edu/sites/default/files/osr/broadband_student_performance_quello.pdf Analyzes the impact of broadband access during the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent student experience in rural Michigan. Provides data and information related to digital device and broadband access, learning from home, student achievement and well-being, and future directions for broadband equity. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/21342 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:47:38 -0500 https://rems.ed.gov/docs/RuralSchoolsFactSheet_508C.pdf Provides information and resources on emergency planning (EP) for rural schools. Discusses challenges such as funding, staff shortages, and lack of broadband, and includes steps to overcome them. Also presents example programs, including those aimed at engaging community partners and students in EP planning process. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/19206 Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:47:47 -0500 https://www.sbh4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/E5_Attendance-SBHC-Availability-and-Use-in-Rural-New-York-and-Los-Angeles.pdf Presentation slides that provide data on the impacts School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) have on absenteeism in the New York State Education System for years 2015-2018. Discusses how SBHCs mitigate absenteeism and the correlation between absenteeism and student health. Includes related information on SBHCs and their impacts in other communities. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/21075 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:02:41 -0500 https://bestpractices.nokidhungry.org/webinars/rural-communities-paving-way-innovation-promising-practices-school-meals A recorded webinar that discusses a shared services model for school food and nutrition services in rural areas. Provides strategies and best practices for implementing innovative school meals programs and networking with surrounding districts. -- No Kid Hungry https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/20925 Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:20:04 -0500 https://tools.sbh4all.org/telehealth/sbthplaybook/ Guides health centers through the design, implementation, and operation of a telehealth program that meets the needs of children and adolescents. Covers assessing needs and readiness, program models, business models, technology and equipment, program evaluation, partnerships, and implementation. Highlights examples from rural areas throughout. -- School-Based Health Alliance https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/20856 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:07:54 -0500 https://bestpractices.nokidhungry.org/programs/community-eligibility-provision?tab=cep-opportunity-finder An interactive tool that allows users to search for school districts eligible for Community Eligibility Programs (CEPs) by state and federal identified student percentage (ISP). -- No Kid Hungry https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/20796 Wed, 24 May 2023 10:17:52 -0500 https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/26743 Discusses the factors that cause inequities and limited access to resources for young children, such as poverty, food insecurity, abuse and violence, lack of social and emotional safety, inadequate healthcare and schooling, and more. Discusses policy and practices aimed at reducing opportunity gaps, with a focus on historically disadvantaged populations, including those in rural areas. -- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/20788 Wed, 24 May 2023 08:32:07 -0500 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7214a4.htm Reports on K-12 public school ventilation improvements to prevent COVID-19 transmission, including replacing or upgrading ventilation systems, installing filtration systems, installing ultraviolet germicidal irradiation devices, and improving airflow. Includes data for city, suburb, town, and rural locations. -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/20531 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:11:19 -0500