Enrollment
250
Elementary
DISTRICT 380 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DERBY·NCES 200546000354
Oaklawn Elem
5000 S Clifton, Wichita, KS 67216 · (316) 554-0704 · Sedgwick County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL250 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
8.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
219 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 19 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 33 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
32.5%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
13.3%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 | 32.5% | 13.3% |
| 2023-24 | 22.7% | 13.4% |
% 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
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Oaklawn Elem
Oaklawn Elem's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oaklawn Elem this school | 250 | 87.6% | 25.9% |
| W A White Elem Emporia | 248 | 83.5% | 25.6% |
| Faris Elementary Hutchinson | 279 | 89.6% | 21.9% |
| Cottonwood Elementary School Salina | 326 | 85.3% | 40.5% |
| O K Elem Wichita | 262 | 79.0% | 29.9% |
| Oakdale Elem Salina | 282 | 85.8% | 21.7% |
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 Oaklawn Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #528 of 625 | #55 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.3% | #593 of 625 | #71 of 92 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #527 of 625 | #58 of 92 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 250 | #464 of 714 | #92 of 98 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.9:1 | #2 of 539 | #1 of 97 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #120 of 540 | #46 of 97 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.6% | #62 of 658 | #26 of 97 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.9% | #147 of 377 | #29 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
250
-8 (-3%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 308
Student : Teacher
8.9:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 250 | 28 | 8.9:1 | 88% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 250 | 26.3 | 9.5:1 | 86% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 216 | 25.5 | 8.5:1 | 91% (196) |
| 2020-21 | 258 | 25 | 10.3:1 | 92% (237) |
| 2017-18 | 301 | 23 | 13.1:1 | 88% (265) |
| 2015-16 | 272 | 22 | 12.4:1 | 91% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 240 | 25 | 9.6:1 | 88% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 232 | 22 | 10.6:1 | 83% (192) |
| 1990-91 | 308 | 22 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oaklawn Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (301 to 250); teachers up 22% (23 to 28).
About Oaklawn Elem
Oaklawn Elem is a small elementary school in Derby, located in Wichita, Kansas. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 250 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Kansas enroll about 313 students on average.
Derby has 7,416 students in 13 schools, and Oaklawn Elem is one of those schools.
White students make up 45% of enrollment at Oaklawn Elem, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 40% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 69% White among all Sedgwick County residents. A diversity index of 63% means there is a 63% chance two randomly chosen students at Oaklawn Elem are from different groups.
Oaklawn Elem lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 8.9 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Kansas, the average ratio is 13.2:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 88% of the student body. The 63% average for public schools in Sedgwick County is 25 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Oaklawn Elem lands at C, ahead of 27% 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 Oaklawn Elem, the prediction is 20.2% and the result is 25.9%.
The school's county is Sedgwick County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $69,365 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Oaklawn Elem shares Sedgwick County with 159 other public schools.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Paul B Cooper Elem, is the closest to Oaklawn Elem. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 25.9% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 250, down from 258 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 10.3:1 to 8.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in Derby
- Derby High SchoolHigh · 2,172 students
- Derby Middle SchMiddle · 923 students
- Derby North Middle SchoolMiddle · 832 students
- Tanglewood ElemElementary · 607 students
- Stone Creek ElementaryElementary · 451 students
- Derby Hills ElemElementary · 410 students
Other schools in Wichita
- 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
Other Oaklawn Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Oaklawn Elementary. Oaklawn Elem is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Oaklawn ElementaryOshkosh, WI · 416 students
- Oaklawn Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 395 students
- Oaklawn ElementaryMenomonie, WI · 382 students
- Oaklawn Elementary SchoolMonticello, IN · 323 students
Nearby schools
- Paul B Cooper Elem0.6 mi · 278
- White Elem1.1 mi · 414
- Stone Creek Elementary2.4 mi · 451
- Wells Alternative Middle School2.5 mi · 36
- Derby Hills Elem2.7 mi · 410
- Colvin Elem2.8 mi · 571
Frequently asked questions
About Oaklawn ElemWhat is the total enrollment at Oaklawn Elem?
Oaklawn Elem enrolls approximately 250 students in grades PK-05.
Is Oaklawn Elem an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oaklawn Elem is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Oaklawn Elem have?
Oaklawn Elem employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Oaklawn Elem?
Student demographics at Oaklawn Elem are roughly 45% White, 40% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Oaklawn Elem public or private?
Oaklawn Elem is a public K-12 school, overseen by Derby.
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