Wheatland Elem

Wheatland Elem operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Valley Center, Kansas, part of Valley Center Pub Sch. Current enrollment sits at 325 students spanning grades K through 3.

Across the 7 schools in Valley Center Pub Sch (3,177 students total), Wheatland Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Wheatland Elem logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Wheatland Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Wheatland Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.3%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of +13.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sedgwick County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,365, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Wheatland Elem is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students).

Valley Center Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Wheatland Elem. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wheatland Elem ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.5%.

Wheatland Elem operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Wheatland Elem's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 325). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 8% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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