Colvin Elem

As a big elementary-level community in Wichita, Kansas, Colvin Elem educates 571 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Wichita. Enrollment runs roughly 82% above the state mean of about 313.

Colvin Elem is one of 87 schools operated by Wichita, a district that hosts 47,545 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Colvin Elem shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Colvin Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.1%; this one delivers 11.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sedgwick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Colvin Elem is one.

The closest other public school is Jardine Technology Middle Magnet, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Colvin Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 15.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 702 students in 2018 compared to 571 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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