Explorer Elementary School

Located at 16746 W Explorer, in Goddard, Kansas, Explorer Elementary School is a medium-sized primary school that serves 433 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by Goddard. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Explorer Elementary School sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Goddard comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,344 students; Explorer Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Explorer Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, Explorer Elementary School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Explorer Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.3%.

In the broader community, Sedgwick County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Explorer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Eisenhower High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Explorer Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 473 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 85% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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