Summary
White Elementary is a public school in Wichita, Kansas, serving pre-K through grade 5, with 414 students. Its test scores have improved, but proficiency remains below state averages in all three tested subjects. Attendance is an especially serious concern: 40% of students were chronically absent in 2025–26, the highest rate among the 11 nearby schools and 17 percentage points above their average.
Science is the school’s strongest subject compared with the district and nearby schools: 33% of students were proficient, the third-highest result among the 11 nearby schools and 12 percentage points above the Wichita average, though still 5 points below the state. Math is the biggest gap compared with the state: proficiency was 17%, versus 41% statewide and 21% in the district. White ranked fifth of the 11 nearby schools in math and was the highest-scoring of the six Wichita schools. ELA proficiency was 28%, below the state’s 46% and the district’s 30%; White ranked seventh among nearby schools.
Scores have risen since 2022–23: ELA is up 18 percentage points, math 13 points, and science 22 points, with the science gap to the state narrowing by 15 points. Chronic absenteeism has fallen from 57% to 40% over that period, but rose from 36% in 2024–25. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 rating was 597th of 657 statewide, in the 9th percentile, with zero stars; its percentile has climbed from zero in 2022–23. The school’s student-teacher ratio is 13.6, near the nearby-school average, and its free/reduced-lunch rate is 85%, above the local average of 79%. One subgroup stands out: SchoolDigger ranked White 39th of 72 statewide for African American students, at the 46th percentile, well above its overall percentile. For students with low socioeconomic status, its percentile rose from 3 to 15 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, compared with an increase from 3 to 9 overall.
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