Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[295, 158, 276, 100, 174, 297, 213, 26, 20, 62, 207, 224, 203, 245, 274, 287, 167, 265, 241, 84], k=9

203