Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Wichita, Kansas, Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem teaches 347 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Wichita.

Wichita runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 47,545 students. Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder looks like 17% White, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 17%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.9%, the actual is 20.9%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Sedgwick County put median household income runs about $69,365, 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), Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem is one campus in the mix.

Marshall Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 328 (now 347). White enrollment moved from 22% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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