Irving Elementary

Irving Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Wichita, Kansas, run under Wichita. Current enrollment sits at 447 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 43% larger than typical.

Wichita runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 47,545 students. Irving Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Irving Elementary reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 6% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Irving Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Irving Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.4%; this one delivers 16.5%.

Across the wider county, census data for Sedgwick County shows median household income runs about $69,365, 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 Irving Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Horace Mann Dual Language Magnet, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Irving Elementary. On composite proficiency, Irving Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 454 students in 2018 compared to 447 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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