Woodman Elem

Woodman Elem, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Wichita, Kansas, operated by Wichita, serves 612 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Woodman Elem sits 96% larger than that benchmark.

Woodman Elem is one of 87 schools operated by Wichita, a district that hosts 47,545 students overall.

Demographically, Woodman Elem lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 30% White, 14% multiracial, 11% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Woodman Elem higher than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodman Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.3%; this one delivers 19.6%.

In the area at large, 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%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Woodman Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Truesdell Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodman Elem. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodman Elem at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 14.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodman Elem's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 671 (now 612). White enrollment moved from 42% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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