Maize Central Elementary

Maize Central Elementary is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Maize, Kansas, operated by Maize, with 542 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Maize Central Elementary sits 73% bigger than that benchmark.

Maize comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 8,065 students; Maize Central Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Maize Central Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 65%; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Maize Central Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Maize Central Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Sedgwick County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,365, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Maize Central Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vermillion Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maize Central Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maize Central Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Maize Central Elementary's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 709 (now 542). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 73% to 65%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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