Jackson Elementary

Located at 2717 N Woodlawn, in Wichita, Kansas, Jackson Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that educates 337 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Wichita.

Within Wichita, which oversees 87 schools and 47,545 students, Jackson Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jackson Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 22% White, 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Jackson Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 80% of students at Jackson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Jackson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.0%; this one delivers 17.0%.

Around the school, census data for Sedgwick County shows median household earnings sit near $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Jackson Elementary is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gammon Elem, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Jackson Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 17.8%.

Jackson Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jackson Elementary has contracted 23%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 337 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 58% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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