Ruth Clark Elementary K-5

Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Wichita, Kansas, overseen by Haysville. Current enrollment sits at 316 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Haysville runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,417 students. Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 logs that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 22% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Sedgwick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Campus High Haysville, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ruth Clark Elementary K-5 has ticked down 18%, going from 384 students in 2018 to 316 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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