Irving Elem

Located at 311 Harter, in Winfield, Kansas, Irving Elem is a small K-5 school that educates 234 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Winfield. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Winfield runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,915 students. Irving Elem is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Irving Elem logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Cowley County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 73% of students at Irving Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Cowley County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Irving Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cowley County indicate median household earnings sit near $57,878, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Cowley County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,714 students), Irving Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lowell Elem, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Irving Elem comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

Irving Elem operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Irving Elem's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 234). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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