Prairie Elementary School

Prairie Elementary School is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Haysville, Kansas, overseen by Haysville, educateing 407 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 313.

Within Haysville, which oversees 9 schools and 5,417 students, Prairie Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prairie Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, On paper, Prairie Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Prairie Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prairie Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.4%; this one delivers 20.0%.

Around the school, census data for Sedgwick County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prairie Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students).

Nearest neighbor: Haysville West Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prairie Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 28.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 488 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.