Kennedy Elem

Kennedy Elem is a primary school of tight-knit scale in Wellington, Kansas, run under Wellington, teacheing 126 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Kennedy Elem sits 60% leaner than that benchmark.

Wellington comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 1,439 students; Kennedy Elem is among them.

Demographically, Kennedy Elem reports that White students make up the majority at 68%. The remainder breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Sumner County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Kennedy Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sumner County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kennedy Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.1%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sumner County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,951 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Sumner County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,436 students), Kennedy Elem is one campus in the mix.

Wellington High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kennedy Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kennedy Elem has shrank 32%, going from 186 students in 2018 to 126 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 79% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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