Bryant Opportunity Academy

Bryant Opportunity Academy is a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Wichita, Kansas, one of the schools within Wichita. The school instructs 36 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 88% leaner than typical.

Wichita runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 47,545 students. Bryant Opportunity Academy is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bryant Opportunity Academy logs that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 28% White, 19% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 3% Native American. 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, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Bryant Opportunity Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bryant Opportunity Academy falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 18.3%; this one comes in at 0.5%, -17.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sedgwick County) records that median household income runs about $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Bryant Opportunity Academy is one campus in the mix.

Hadley 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, Bryant Opportunity Academy comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

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