1
Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299001798
Dodge Literacy Magnet
4801 W 2nd, Wichita, KS 67212 · (316) 973-3150 · Sedgwick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of Kansas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
454 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 | 39 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
69%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
29.9%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
18.7%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 | 29.9% | 18.7% |
| 2023-24 | 16.7% | 9.4% |
% 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
20.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Dodge Literacy Magnet
Dodge Literacy Magnet's state test result (20.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge Literacy Magnet this school | 547 | 83.0% | 20.2% |
| Enders STEM and Leadership Magnet Wichita | 509 | 84.1% | 20.5% |
| Woodman Elem Wichita | 612 | 87.4% | 19.6% |
| Lawrence Elem Wichita | 394 | 86.3% | 24.8% |
| Apache Elem Overland Park | 526 | 76.8% | 28.4% |
| Oak Grove Elem Kansas City | 532 | 79.9% | 36.2% |
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 Dodge Literacy Magnet ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #570 of 625 | #64 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.7% | #560 of 625 | #60 of 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #550 of 625 | #63 of 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #45 of 714 | #10 of 98 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #404 of 539 | #75 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #52 of 540 | #27 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.0% | #98 of 658 | #40 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #354 of 377 | #62 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
547
+84 (+18%) vs 2020
+19% since 2010-11, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 547 | 37 | 14.8:1 | 83% (454) |
| 2023-24 | 531 | 35.9 | 14.8:1 | 86% (455) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 83% (428) |
| 2020-21 | 463 | 34 | 13.6:1 | 77% (358) |
| 2017-18 | 557 | 32.2 | 17.3:1 | 77% (427) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 75% (440) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 27 | 17.0:1 | 85% (389) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dodge Literacy Magnet.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (557 to 547); teachers up 15% (32.2 to 37).
About Dodge Literacy Magnet
Dodge Literacy Magnet is a large elementary school in Wichita, located in Wichita, Kansas. It enrolled 547 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 75% higher than the average for elementary schools in Kansas, which is about 313.
The Wichita system has 87 schools and 47,545 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at Dodge Literacy Magnet, at 42%. Other groups make up 32% White, 13% multiracial, 10% Black, and 2% Native American. County-wide, 17% of Sedgwick County residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.8:1. On average, elementary schools in Kansas have 13.2:1, compared with 14.8:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Dodge Literacy Magnet is 83%. That is 20 points above the 63% average for public schools in Sedgwick County.
Measured against Kansas public elementary schools, Dodge Literacy Magnet receives a D. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with Dodge Literacy Magnet's lunch-eligibility share in Kansas is predicted to score 22.4%. Dodge Literacy Magnet scores 20.2%, 2.2 points below that line.
Dodge Literacy Magnet is located in Sedgwick County, where the median household income is $69,365, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Dodge Literacy Magnet, Sedgwick County has 159 other public schools.
Lawrence Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles away. The five-mile area around Dodge Literacy Magnet holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Dodge Literacy Magnet at 5th of 8.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school enrolled 547 students in 2024-25, 84 more than the 463 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.8:1.
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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
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- O K Elem1.9 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About Dodge Literacy MagnetHow large is Dodge Literacy Magnet?
Dodge Literacy Magnet enrolls approximately 547 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Dodge Literacy Magnet serve?
Dodge Literacy Magnet serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Dodge Literacy Magnet?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at Dodge Literacy Magnet.
What is the student diversity at Dodge Literacy Magnet?
Student demographics at Dodge Literacy Magnet are roughly 32% White, 42% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Dodge Literacy Magnet?
Dodge Literacy Magnet is overseen by Wichita in Sedgwick County.
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