David Brewer Elementary

David Brewer Elementary is a primary school of average-sized scale in Leavenworth, Kansas, one of the schools within Leavenworth, teacheing 319 students in grades 1 through 4.

Leavenworth comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,268 students; David Brewer Elementary is among them.

Demographically, David Brewer Elementary lists that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 18% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 13% Black. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, David Brewer Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Leavenworth County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, David Brewer Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Leavenworth County) logs that median household income runs about $89,218, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Leavenworth County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,185 students), David Brewer Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bradley Elem, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts David Brewer Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

David Brewer Elementary operates from a town-based location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 61% to 53%.

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