Schools · Wichita
Wichita, KS schools
Wichita’s public schools score well below Kansas’s averages: 20% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 81% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend one of 53 schools through grade 12, then one of 18 high schools and one of 10 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D−
Wichita’s School Grade: D-
The public schools Wichita’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 96% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
D-Test scoresDGraduation
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 4%
Lower resultsHigher results
Kansas towns with similar household incomes (859)Better than 3%
High confidence. Built on 20,716 tested students and a graduating class of 3,413; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Kansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Kansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Wichita kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Wichita Unified School District 259)20%
State average 35.5%
Math (grades PK–12, Wichita Unified School District 259)12%
State average 27.9%
Graduation · class of 2020
81% graduate on time
Graduation rate
81%
KS: 88%
Graduating class
3,413
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #124 of 125 KS towns →
Districts
The district serving Wichita
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges
Wichita is home to 5 colleges
Wichita State UniversityUniversity or college · Public · Wichita12,533on campusWichita State University-Campus of Applied Sciences and TechnologyCommunity college · Public · Wichita4,841on campusNewman UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Wichita2,532on campusFriends UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Wichita1,701on campus
All 5 colleges in Wichita →Every school
All 122 schools in Wichita
Showing 1–30 of 122 schools
Christa McAuliffe AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 829 students
C+PublicMinneha Core Knowledge ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 644 students
B-PublicHorace Mann Dual Language MagnetElementary · Grades PK–8 · 643 students
C-PublicWoodman ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 612 students
DPublicCloud ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 580 students
DPublicColvin ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 571 students
D-PublicDodge Literacy MagnetElementary · Grades PK–5 · 547 students
CPublicApollo Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–4 · 544 students
A+PublicBeech ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 538 students
C-PublicAllen ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 514 students
DPublicMaize South ElementaryElementary · Grades K–4 · 514 students
A-PublicEnders STEM and Leadership MagnetElementary · Grades PK–5 · 509 students
DPublicSeltzer ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 494 students
C+PublicKensler ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 488 students
C+PublicGordon Parks AcademyElementary · Grades PK–8 · 485 students
DPublicSpaght Multimedia MagnetElementary · Grades PK–5 · 480 students
D-PublicAnderson ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 477 students
D-PublicPrice-Harris Communications MagnetElementary · Grades PK–5 · 477 students
BPublicEarhart Environ Magnet ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 471 students
B-PublicWashington Accelerated Learning ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 470 students
C-PublicCaldwell ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 465 students
DPublicLinwood ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 452 students
D-PublicGammon ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 448 students
DPublicIrving ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 447 students
DPublicAdams ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 446 students
D-PublicWheatland ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 443 students
A+PublicStanley ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 439 students
DPublicExplorer Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–4 · 433 students
APublicKelly Liberal Arts AcademyElementary · Grades PK–5 · 429 students
DPublicEnterprise ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 424 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.