Enrollment
304
Elementary
DISTRICT 408 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000302
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne
2500 E 18th, Wichita, KS 67214 · (316) 973-8300 · Sedgwick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL304 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.
- DBeats 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
12.4:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
285 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 35 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
60%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
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KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
18.2%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
8.3%
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 8 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 | 18.2% | 8.3% |
| 2023-24 | 14.9% | 7.4% |
% 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
17.3%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne's state test result (12.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne this school | 304 | 93.8% | 12.0% |
| Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem Wichita | 313 | 90.7% | 12.9% |
| Gordon Parks Academy Wichita | 485 | 90.7% | 18.0% |
| L'Ouverture Computer Technology Magnet Wichita | 232 | 95.3% | 16.2% |
| Grant Elem Kansas City | 289 | 95.8% | 10.2% |
| Jackson Elementary Wichita | 337 | 79.8% | 17.0% |
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 Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #620 of 625 | #90 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 8.3% | #615 of 625 | #85 of 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #616 of 625 | #89 of 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 304 | #372 of 714 | #80 of 98 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #153 of 539 | #16 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.0% | #154 of 540 | #54 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.8% | #21 of 658 | #10 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.8% | #13 of 377 | #1 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
304
-99 (-25%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 540
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 304 | 24.6 | 12.4:1 | 94% (285) |
| 2023-24 | 310 | 23.8 | 13.0:1 | 94% (292) |
| 2022-23 | 299 | 31 | 9.6:1 | 97% (289) |
| 2020-21 | 403 | 32 | 12.6:1 | 93% (373) |
| 2017-18 | 481 | 31.2 | 15.4:1 | 91% (439) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 34 | 12.7:1 | 90% (389) |
| 2010-11 | 489 | 33 | 14.8:1 | 86% (420) |
| 2000-01 | 531 | 30 | 17.7:1 | 53% (279) |
| 1990-91 | 540 | 27 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne.
Since 2017-18: students down 37% (481 to 304); teachers down 21% (31.2 to 24.6).
About Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne is a medium-sized elementary school found in Wichita, Kansas. The school serves 304 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Wichita operates 87 schools. Combined enrollment is 47,545 students.
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne's enrollment is 58% Black. The next largest groups are 21% Hispanic, 10% White, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. In Sedgwick County overall, about 8% of residents are Black. Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne has a diversity index of 60%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne operates with 24.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 12.4:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Kansas average 13.2:1. About 94% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The gap from the 63% average for public schools in Sedgwick County is 31 points.
allk12 grades Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne an F. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne is 5.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (12.0% versus 17.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Kansas.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Sedgwick County show that median household income is about $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 160 public schools in Sedgwick County, with a combined enrollment of about 84,569.
The nearest other public school, Wichita Alternative High, is about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 403 in 2020-21 and 304 in 2024-25, a decrease of 99 students.
Community posts for Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 1,424 students
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- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- Campus High HaysvilleHigh · 1,803 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Nearby schools
- Wichita Alternative High0.2 mi · 133
- Gordon Parks Academy0.8 mi · 485
- Spaght Multimedia Magnet1.0 mi · 480
- L'Ouverture Computer Technology Magnet1.2 mi · 232
- Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem1.3 mi · 313
- Brooks Magnet Middle School1.4 mi · 578
Frequently asked questions
About Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery MagneWhat is the total enrollment at Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne?
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne enrolls approximately 304 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne have?
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne?
Student demographics at Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne are roughly 10% White, 21% Hispanic, 58% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne?
Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne is overseen by Wichita in Sedgwick County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.