Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem

Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Wichita, Kansas, overseen by Wichita, enrolls 313 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Wichita, which oversees 87 schools and 47,545 students, Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem reports that the largest single group is Black at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 17% White, 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.7%; this one delivers 12.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Sedgwick County indicate 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), Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Brooks Magnet Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 15.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem has contracted 23%, going from 407 students in 2018 to 313 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.