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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Colvin Elem administration to hear?
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Enrollment
571
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000267
Colvin Elem
2820 S Roosevelt, Wichita, KS 67210 · (316) 973-7600 · Sedgwick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL571 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
538 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
5
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 | 60 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
56%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
20.9%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
9.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 | 20.9% | 9.0% |
| 2023-24 | 8.9% | 5.7% |
% 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
11.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Colvin Elem
Colvin Elem's state test result (11.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colvin Elem this school | 571 | 94.2% | 11.8% |
| Shawanoe Elem Shawnee | 530 | 86.4% | 21.3% |
| M E Pearson Elem Kansas City | 606 | 94.7% | 14.8% |
| Anderson Elem Wichita | 477 | 93.3% | 13.8% |
| Linwood Elementary Wichita | 452 | 91.8% | 12.0% |
| Washington Accelerated Learning Elem Wichita | 470 | 96.0% | 22.0% |
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 Colvin Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.8% | #622 of 625 | #91 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.0% | #612 of 625 | #83 of 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #604 of 625 | #85 of 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 571 | #33 of 714 | #9 of 98 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #189 of 539 | #20 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #194 of 540 | #57 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.2% | #17 of 658 | #8 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #123 of 377 | #24 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
571
-30 (-5%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 571 | 44.6 | 12.8:1 | 94% (538) |
| 2023-24 | 574 | 44 | 13.1:1 | 96% (553) |
| 2022-23 | 602 | 44.5 | 13.5:1 | 96% (580) |
| 2020-21 | 601 | 50 | 12.0:1 | 95% (573) |
| 2017-18 | 702 | 49.1 | 14.3:1 | 92% (643) |
| 2015-16 | 763 | 49 | 15.6:1 | 95% (728) |
| 2010-11 | 900 | 51 | 17.6:1 | 97% (873) |
| 2000-01 | 812 | 50 | 16.2:1 | 97% (789) |
| 1990-91 | 687 | 41 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Colvin Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (702 to 571); teachers down 9% (49.1 to 44.6).
About Colvin Elem
Colvin Elem is an elementary school in Wichita, Kansas, according to federal school records. The school had 571 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Kansas is about 313, so this school runs 82% larger than that.
Wichita enrolls 47,545 students, and its 87 schools include Colvin Elem.
By race and ethnicity, Colvin Elem is 64% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 13% White, 11% Black, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Sedgwick County is about 17% Hispanic. Colvin Elem has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Staffing totals 44.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.8:1. Across elementary schools in Kansas, the average ratio is about 13.2:1. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Colvin Elem is 94%. Among public schools in Sedgwick County, the average eligibility rate is 63%.
A school with Colvin Elem's lunch-eligibility share in Kansas is predicted to score 17.1%. Colvin Elem scores 11.8%, 5.3 points below that line.
Census Bureau estimates for Sedgwick County show that median household income is 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%. Colvin Elem is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County, which together enroll about 84,569 students.
Nearest public school: Jardine Technology Middle Magnet, about 0.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Colvin Elem is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 5%, from 601 to 571.
Discussions about Colvin Elem may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- Campus High HaysvilleHigh · 1,803 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Nearby schools
- Jardine Technology Middle Magnet0.4 mi · 499
- Sowers Alternative High School1.0 mi · 60
- Griffith Elem1.3 mi · 370
- Allen Elem1.3 mi · 514
- Mead Middle School1.5 mi · 678
- Chisholm Life Skills Center1.7 mi · 96
Frequently asked questions
About Colvin ElemHow many students attend Colvin Elem?
Colvin Elem enrolls approximately 571 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Colvin Elem serve?
Colvin Elem serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Colvin Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Colvin Elem is approximately 12.8:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Colvin Elem?
Student demographics at Colvin Elem are roughly 13% White, 64% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Colvin Elem?
Colvin Elem is overseen by Wichita in Sedgwick County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.