Clearwater Elementary West

Clearwater Elementary West, a moderately sized elementary-level community in Clearwater, Kansas, overseen by Clearwater, caters to 329 students, covering grades pre-K through 3.

Within Clearwater, which oversees 3 schools and 1,095 students, Clearwater Elementary West is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Clearwater Elementary West logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clearwater Elementary West performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the area at large, Sedgwick County reports 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), Clearwater Elementary West is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Clearwater Elementary West. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clearwater Elementary West ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.6%.

Clearwater Elementary West operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clearwater Elementary West has edged down 12%, going from 372 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 90% to 85% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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