Washington Accelerated Learning Elem

Washington Accelerated Learning Elem is a primary school of roomy scale in Wichita, Kansas, one of the schools within Wichita, serveing 470 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 50% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Wichita comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 47,545 students; Washington Accelerated Learning Elem is among them.

On demographics, Washington Accelerated Learning Elem lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Black, 13% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Washington Accelerated Learning Elem higher than the state norm the norm. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Washington Accelerated Learning Elem tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.

In the surrounding community, Sedgwick County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Washington Accelerated Learning Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: East High, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Washington Accelerated Learning Elem comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Washington Accelerated Learning Elem has contracted 10%, going from 525 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 22% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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