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Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000262
Chisholm Trail Elem
6015 Independence, Park City, KS 67219 · (316) 973-9400 · Sedgwick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
271 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
24.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.3% | 24.9% |
| 2023-24 | 32.4% | 29.3% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Chisholm Trail Elem
Chisholm Trail Elem's state test result (31.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chisholm Trail Elem this school | 381 | 71.1% | 31.0% |
| Randolph Elem Topeka | 346 | 72.8% | 31.6% |
| McEachron Elem Topeka | 422 | 68.2% | 32.7% |
| McClure Elem Topeka | 301 | 69.1% | 31.9% |
| Northview Elem Manhattan | 364 | 73.1% | 36.3% |
| Edwardsville Elem Edwardsville | 331 | 70.7% | 45.4% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Chisholm Trail Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #483 of 625 | #51 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.9% | #505 of 625 | #52 of 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #434 of 625 | #48 of 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #220 of 714 | #56 of 98 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #245 of 539 | #30 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.3% | #115 of 540 | #44 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.1% | #166 of 658 | #47 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.6% | #98 of 377 | #19 of 67 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
381
-42 (-10%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 449
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 381 | 28.8 | 13.2:1 | 71% (271) |
| 2023-24 | 401 | 28.6 | 14.0:1 | 72% (290) |
| 2022-23 | 417 | 30.8 | 13.5:1 | 66% (277) |
| 2020-21 | 423 | 32 | 13.2:1 | 57% (240) |
| 2017-18 | 486 | 21.2 | 22.9:1 | 54% (261) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 33 | 14.3:1 | 60% (286) |
| 2010-11 | 550 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 65% (357) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 36 | 15.4:1 | 63% (347) |
| 1990-91 | 449 | 22 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chisholm Trail Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (486 to 381); teachers up 36% (21.2 to 28.8).
About Chisholm Trail Elem
This page covers Chisholm Trail Elem, a mid-sized elementary school in Park City, Kansas. It has an enrollment of 381 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Kansas average about 313 students, which makes this school 22% bigger than average.
Wichita runs 87 schools with a combined 47,545 students. Chisholm Trail Elem is one of them.
The share of White students at Chisholm Trail Elem is 53%, a majority. The remaining students are 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Sedgwick County is about 69% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 63, compared with 70 nationally.
Chisholm Trail Elem has 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1. That is in line with the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas. At Chisholm Trail Elem, 71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 63% average for public schools in Sedgwick County is 8 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Chisholm Trail Elem lands at C, ahead of 25% of Kansas public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Chisholm Trail Elem, the prediction is 28.1% and the result is 31.0%.
In the surrounding county, Sedgwick County, median household income comes to about $69,365, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 160, with about 84,569 students.
Heights High is the nearest public school to Chisholm Trail Elem, about 1.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 36.2%, higher than Chisholm Trail Elem's 31.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 423 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 381 by 2024-25.
People who know Chisholm Trail Elem can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 1,424 students
Other Chisholm Trail Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Chisholm Trail Elementary. Chisholm Trail Elem is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Chisholm Trail Elementary SchoolBELTON, TX · 766 students
- Chisholm Trail Elementary SchoolSANGER, TX · 292 students
Nearby schools
- Heights High1.6 mi · 1,505
- Earhart Environ Magnet Elem2.4 mi · 471
- Stucky Middle School2.9 mi · 518
- The Learning Center3.5 mi · 78
- Ortiz Elementary School3.5 mi · 323
- Isely Traditional Magnet Elem3.6 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Chisholm Trail ElemHow many students attend Chisholm Trail Elem?
Chisholm Trail Elem enrolls approximately 381 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Chisholm Trail Elem serve?
Chisholm Trail Elem serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Chisholm Trail Elem?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Chisholm Trail Elem.
How diverse is Chisholm Trail Elem?
Chisholm Trail Elem reports a student body of 53% White, 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Chisholm Trail Elem?
Chisholm Trail Elem is overseen by Wichita in Sedgwick County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.