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Cathy Hopkins

Cathy Hopkins

211 W. 21st Street
Hays, KS 67601
(913) 634-0445 
chopkins@ksde.org

First term on State Board:  2023
 

Cathy Hopkins is a native Kansan who values her faith, family and education. She owned a small business for nine years and worked for the local chamber of commerce for three and a half years. She also worked for nine years at a national law firm where she developed a training program and curriculum for the firm’s administrative staff members. Mrs. Hopkins traveled across the United States to train staff members and co-supervised more than 30 administrative assistants.

During the six years that Mrs. Hopkins lived out of state, she served at a global ministry headquarters – three of those years as executive director of the international association branch of the ministry.

She and her husband live in Hays and have six children and 13 grandchildren.

District 5 represents the following school districts in western and central Kansas, in county order:

Cheyenne

  • Cheylin USD 103
  • St. Francis Community USD 297

Clark

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Minneola USD 219

Clay

  • Clay County USD 379

Cloud

  • Cloud Concordia USD 333
  • Cloud Southern Cloud USD 334

Comanche

  • Comanche County USD 300

Decatur

  • Oberlin USD 294

Dickinson

  • Solomon USD 393

Ellis

  • Ellis USD 388
  • Hays USD 489
  • Victoria USD 432

Ellsworth

  • Central Plains USD 112

Finney

  • Garden City USD 457
  • Holcomb USD 363

Ford

  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Dodge City USD 443
  • Spearville USD 381

Gove

  • Grinnell Public Schools USD 291
  • Quinter Public Schools USD 293
  • Wheatland USD 292

Graham

  • Graham County USD 281

Grant

  • Ulysses USD 214

Gray

  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Copeland USD 476
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Montezuma USD 371

Greeley

  • Greeley County Schools USD 200

Hamilton

  • Syracuse USD 494

Haskell

  • Satanta USD 507
  • Sublette USD 374

Hodgeman

  • Hodgeman County Schools USD 227

Jewell

  • Rock Hills USD 107

Kearny

  • Deerfield USD 216
  • Lakin USD 215

Lane

  • Dighton USD 482
  • Healy Public Schools USD 468

Lincoln

  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Sylvan Grove USD 299

Logan

  • Oakley USD 274
  • Triplains USD 275

Marshall

  • Marysville USD 364
  • Valley Heights USD 498

Meade

  • Fowler USD 225
  • Meade USD 226

Mitchell

  • Beloit USD 273
  • Waconda USD 272

Morton

  • Elkhart USD 218
  • Rolla USD 217

Ness

  • Western Plains USD 106

Norton

  • Northern Valley USD 212
  • Norton Community Schools USD 211

Osborne

  • Osborne County USD 392

Ottawa

  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Twin Valley USD 240

Pawnee

  • Pawnee Heights USD 496

Phillips

  • Logan USD 326
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Thunder Ridge USD 110

Rawlins

  • Rawlins County USD 105

Republic

  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Republic County USD 109

Rooks

  • Palco USD 269
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Stockton USD 271

Rush

  • LaCrosse USD 395
  • Otis-Bison USD 403

Russell

  • Paradise USD 399
  • Russell County USD 407

Scott

  • Scott County USD 466

Seward

  • Kismet-Plains USD 483
  • Liberal USD 480

Sheridan

  • Hoxie Community Schools USD 412

Sherman

  • Goodland USD 352

Smith

  • Smith Center USD 237

Stanton

  • Stanton County USD 452

Stevens

  • Hugoton Public Schools USD 210
  • Moscow Public Schools USD 209

Thomas

  • Brewster USD 314
  • Colby Public Schools USD 315
  • Golden Plains USD 316

Trego

  • WaKeeney USD 208

Wallace

  • Wallace County Schools USD 241
  • Weskan USD 242

Washington

  • Barnes USD 223
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Washington County USD 108

Wichita

  • Leoti USD 467

Board Office

Deborah Bremer, Board Secretary 
(785) 296-3203

Board Contact Information

Kansas Map of district 5

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Full Map (PDF)

Map (above) updated to January 2023 redistricting.

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