Seltzer Elem

Seltzer Elem operates as a well-populated elementary-level community in Wichita, Kansas, run under Wichita. Current enrollment sits at 494 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 58% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Seltzer Elem is one of 87 schools operated by Wichita, a district that instructs 47,545 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Seltzer Elem logs that the most-represented group is Asian (23%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Black, 21% Hispanic, 20% White, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 4% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Seltzer Elem has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Seltzer Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.0%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of +5.3 points.

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

Nearest neighbor: Beech Elem, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Seltzer Elem. On composite proficiency, Seltzer Elem comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 583 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 29% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.