Wineteer Elem

Wineteer Elem, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Wichita, Kansas, part of Derby, enrolls 397 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Wineteer Elem sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Derby (7,416 students total), Wineteer Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Wineteer Elem shows that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 12% Black, 5% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Wineteer Elem has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 64% of students at Wineteer Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Wineteer Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +14.3 points.

Around the school, Sedgwick County reports that median household earnings sit near $69,365, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Wineteer Elem is one.

Beech Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wineteer Elem ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 24.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wineteer Elem has declined 14%, going from 463 students in 2018 to 397 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 47% across the same window.

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