Rex Elem

Located at 1100 W. Grand, in Haysville, Kansas, Rex Elem is an average-sized K-5 school that educates 386 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Haysville. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.

Rex Elem is one of 9 schools operated by Haysville, a district that teaches 5,417 students overall.

Demographically, Rex Elem logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at Rex Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rex Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of +5.4 points.

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. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Rex Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Haysville Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rex Elem ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.9%.

Rex Elem operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 542 students in 2018 compared to 386 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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