Apollo Elementary School

Apollo Elementary School is a big elementary school in Goddard, Kansas, run under Goddard. The school teaches 544 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Apollo Elementary School sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Goddard, which oversees 12 schools and 6,344 students, Apollo Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Apollo Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Apollo Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Apollo Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 48.3%; this one delivers 68.0%, a residual of +19.7 points.

In the broader community, Sedgwick County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,365, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Apollo Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Apollo Elementary School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Apollo Elementary School's enrollment has grew 19% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 544). The White share of enrollment shrank from 84% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.