Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary

As a tight-knit primary school in Wichita, Kansas, Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary hosts 255 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Wichita.

Wichita comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 47,545 students; Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Sedgwick County put the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Marshall Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.2%.

Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 258 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 70% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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