Oak Street Elementary School K-4

Located at 501 N Oak, in Goddard, Kansas, Oak Street Elementary School K-4 is an average-sized elementary school that caters to 343 students (grades K through 4), one of the schools within Goddard.

Goddard comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,344 students; Oak Street Elementary School K-4 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Oak Street Elementary School K-4 reports that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Oak Street Elementary School K-4 has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oak Street Elementary School K-4 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sedgwick County) records that median household income runs about $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Oak Street Elementary School K-4 is one campus in the mix.

Challenger Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Street Elementary School K-4. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Street Elementary School K-4 at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Street Elementary School K-4 has rose 17%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 343 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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