Kelly Liberal Arts Academy

Kelly Liberal Arts Academy is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Wichita, Kansas, overseen by Wichita, enrolling 429 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Kelly Liberal Arts Academy sits 37% above that benchmark.

Within Wichita, which oversees 87 schools and 47,545 students, Kelly Liberal Arts Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Kelly Liberal Arts Academy reports that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 17% Black, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 86% of students at Kelly Liberal Arts Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Kelly Liberal Arts Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.0%; this one delivers 18.6%.

In the surrounding community, 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%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Kelly Liberal Arts Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Enders STEM and Leadership Magnet, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kelly Liberal Arts Academy. On composite proficiency, Kelly Liberal Arts Academy comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 15.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kelly Liberal Arts Academy has decreased 7%, going from 461 students in 2018 to 429 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 56% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.