Adams Elem

Adams Elem is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Wichita, Kansas, one of the schools within Wichita, hosting 446 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Adams Elem sits 42% above that benchmark.

Wichita runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 47,545 students. Adams Elem is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Adams Elem reports that the most-represented group is Black (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Adams Elem shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Adams Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.3%; this one delivers 16.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sedgwick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Adams Elem is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Robinson Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Adams Elem comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Adams Elem's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 446). The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 1% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.