Meadowlark Elementary

Meadowlark Elementary, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Wichita, Kansas, part of Andover, serves 372 students, covering grades K through 5.

Meadowlark Elementary is one of 11 schools operated by Andover, a district that teaches 9,460 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Meadowlark Elementary logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Meadowlark Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Butler County) shows that median household earnings sit near $81,610, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Meadowlark Elementary is one of 42 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 18,052 students).

Nearest neighbor: Andover eCademy, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadowlark Elementary. On composite proficiency, Meadowlark Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Meadowlark Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 13%: 329 students in 2018 compared to 372 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 72%.

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