Public school / Primary
Cessna Elem
Wichita, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 201299000260
- District
- Wichita
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Cessna Elem is a public primary school in Wichita, Kansas, run by Wichita. It enrols 356 students — the 57585th largest of 1,365 public schools in Kansas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
356
Teachers
29.0
Students per teacher
12.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Wichita
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1East High2,295 students
- 2Southeast High2,189 students
- 3North High2,074 students
- 4South High1,632 students
- 5Northwest High1,416 students
- 6West High1,370 students
- 7Heights High1,292 students
- 8Truesdell Middle School981 students
- Enrollment+11.3%
- Teachers+31.8%
- Students per teacher−10.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+84.2%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory