Dodge Literacy Magnet

As a sizable elementary school in Wichita, Kansas, Dodge Literacy Magnet educates 547 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Wichita. That puts it 75% larger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Wichita comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 47,545 students; Dodge Literacy Magnet is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dodge Literacy Magnet reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% White, 13% multiracial, 10% Black, 2% Native American. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Dodge Literacy Magnet higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Dodge Literacy Magnet qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Dodge Literacy Magnet performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.4%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Across the wider county, 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 roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Dodge Literacy Magnet is one.

The closest other public school is Lawrence Elem, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dodge Literacy Magnet. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dodge Literacy Magnet at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.7%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 557 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 51% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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