Pray-Woodman Elementary

Pray-Woodman Elementary operates as a large primary school in Maize, Kansas, operated by Maize. Current enrollment sits at 507 students spanning grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 62% bigger than the state mean of about 313.

Maize comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 8,065 students; Pray-Woodman Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pray-Woodman Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pray-Woodman Elementary has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pray-Woodman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 54.9%, a residual of +8.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sedgwick County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pray-Woodman Elementary is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students).

Maize Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pray-Woodman Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pray-Woodman Elementary's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 507). Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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