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Enrollment
452
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000295
Linwood Elementary
1654 S. Hydraulic, Wichita, KS 67211 · (316) 973-8100 · Sedgwick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL452 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Kansas public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
415 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 64 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 70% larger than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
17.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
9.5%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.8% | 9.5% |
| 2023-24 | 8.8% | 8.2% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Linwood Elementary
Linwood Elementary's state test result (12.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood Elementary this school | 452 | 91.8% | 12.0% |
| Anderson Elem Wichita | 477 | 93.3% | 13.8% |
| Griffith Elem Wichita | 370 | 87.6% | 20.6% |
| Stanley Elem Wichita | 439 | 90.4% | 16.4% |
| Gardiner Elem Wichita | 405 | 95.3% | 13.8% |
| Shawanoe Elem Shawnee | 530 | 86.4% | 21.3% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Linwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #619 of 625 | #89 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.5% | #609 of 625 | #81 of 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #618 of 625 | #91 of 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 452 | #112 of 714 | #29 of 98 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #359 of 539 | #62 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #64 of 540 | #29 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.8% | #35 of 658 | #16 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #206 of 377 | #43 of 67 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
452
-17 (-4%) vs 2020
+201% since 1990-91, when it was 150
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 452 | 31.7 | 14.3:1 | 92% (415) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 33.7 | 13.0:1 | 90% (393) |
| 2022-23 | 428 | 35.3 | 12.1:1 | 91% (389) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 34 | 13.8:1 | 88% (415) |
| 2017-18 | 514 | 30.8 | 16.7:1 | 83% (428) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 34 | 17.6:1 | 89% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 32 | 15.9:1 | 91% (461) |
| 2000-01 | 241 | 15 | 16.1:1 | 78% (189) |
| 1990-91 | 150 | 11 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (514 to 452); teachers up 3% (30.8 to 31.7).
About Linwood Elementary
Linwood Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in Wichita, Kansas. Federal data show 452 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Kansas average about 313 students, which makes this school 44% bigger than average.
District-wide, Wichita has 87 schools and 47,545 students.
About 48% of students at Linwood Elementary are Hispanic, the largest single group. The school is also 23% White, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 17%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 68, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 31.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 14.3:1. Elementary schools in Kansas average 13.2:1, 1.1 fewer students per teacher than here. A total of 415 students, or 92%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 63% for public schools in Sedgwick County.
Linwood Elementary earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 1% of Kansas public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Linwood Elementary, the prediction is 18.2% and the result is 12.0%.
For the population of Sedgwick County, median household income comes to about $69,365, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Sedgwick County, 160 public schools serve about 84,569 students.
Chisholm Life Skills Center sits about 0.5 miles from Linwood Elementary. Linwood Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 14.0%, higher than Linwood Elementary's 12.0%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 4%, from 469 to 452.
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Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
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Other Linwood Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Linwood Elementary. Linwood Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 8.
- Linwood Elementary SchoolBonner Springs, KS · 248 students
- Linwood ElementaryVisalia, CA · 537 students
- Linwood ElementarySpokane, WA · 503 students
- Linwood ElementaryWYOMING, MN · 400 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolMilwaukie, OR · 259 students
Nearby schools
- Chisholm Life Skills Center0.5 mi · 96
- Gardiner Elem0.6 mi · 405
- Mead Middle School0.7 mi · 678
- Hamilton Middle School1.1 mi · 604
- Harry Street Elem1.2 mi · 310
- Griffith Elem1.5 mi · 370
Frequently asked questions
About Linwood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Linwood Elementary?
Linwood Elementary enrolls approximately 452 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Linwood Elementary serve?
Linwood Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Linwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Linwood Elementary is approximately 14.3:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Linwood Elementary?
At Linwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 23% White, 48% Hispanic, 15% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Linwood Elementary public or private?
Linwood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wichita.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.