Wiley Elementary

Set in Hutchinson, Kansas, Wiley Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, overseen by Hutchinson Public Schools. It instructs 322 students across grades pre-K through 6.

Hutchinson Public Schools comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 3,957 students; Wiley Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Wiley Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Reno County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Wiley Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Wiley Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Wiley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 27.6%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Reno County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,645 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Reno County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,909 students), Wiley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hutchinson Middle School 8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wiley Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wiley Elementary has rose 5%, going from 306 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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