Gordon Parks Academy

Located at 2201 E. 25th St., in Wichita, Kansas, Gordon Parks Academy is a roomy elementary campus that hosts 485 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within Wichita. That puts it 55% bigger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Across the 87 schools in Wichita (47,545 students total), Gordon Parks Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Gordon Parks Academy reports that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 16% White, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Gordon Parks Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.7%; this one delivers 18.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sedgwick County) records that median household income runs about $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Gordon Parks Academy is one campus in the mix.

Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gordon Parks Academy. On composite proficiency, Gordon Parks Academy comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 13.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gordon Parks Academy has grew 18%, going from 411 students in 2018 to 485 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 67% to 43%.

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