Education Imagine Academy, Wichita KS

Original Research by School Decision on Education Imagine Academy

Education Imagine Academy sits in downtown Wichita at 412 S. Main, a location that places it in the city's historic core. It serves kindergarten through twelfth grade and is part of the Wichita school district, Kansas's largest. The enrollment skews heavily toward the upper grades: the high school years hold the majority of students, with the senior class alone far outpacing lower-grade cohorts. That distribution creates an unusual age mix on one campus, with a small group of elementary students alongside a large adolescent population.

The student body is diverse. White students make up the largest single group, followed by Hispanic students, Black students, and students who identify as two or more races. Smaller shares identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. The data does not include the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, nor the share of students with disabilities or English learners, so a family cannot assess the level of economic need or special education support from this record alone.

On the Kansas Assessment Program tests for the 2024-25 school year, the results show a steep drop-off as students get older. In the early elementary grades, English language arts proficiency reaches a level roughly in line with typical expectations. By third grade, a majority of tested students scored proficient or above in reading. In fourth grade, about half did. From fifth grade onward, however, the rates fall sharply. By middle school, proficiency in ELA is well below the state average, and by eighth grade just over a third of students scored at that level. Math scores are low across every tested grade, with single-digit and low double-digit proficiency rates from fourth grade through eighth grade. Science results in fifth and eighth grades also sit at modest levels. The overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades places the school in the bottom quartile among districts in Sedgwick County. State test cut scores changed in the 2024-25 year for both math and ELA, which means these results are not directly comparable to prior years. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, given the wide gap between early-grade performance and the later grades.

The graduation rate is not reported in this data, so there is no measure of how many students complete high school here.

Housing in the area carries a price tag above the state median home value, with values noticeably higher than the Kansas benchmark. Rents also run above the state median. The national economic context shows a 30-year fixed mortgage rate in the mid-six percent range and a national unemployment rate just above four percent. Wichita itself is Kansas's largest city, an industrial and commercial hub anchored by aircraft manufacturing. The city is largely car-dependent, with walkable nodes downtown near the school's location. The neighborhood around 412 S. Main sits at the edge of the Old Town entertainment district and the Douglas Avenue corridor, so a family considering this school should understand that the immediate surroundings are more urban than the suburban neighborhoods where most Wichita students live.

The district brief did not return any recent changes to Wichita Public Schools, so no information about bond measures, boundary changes, program expansions, or leadership transitions is available to contextualize the school's current direction. Program details such as Advanced Placement course offerings, career and technical education pathways, or dual-credit opportunities are also absent from this record.

This school fits a family who values a downtown location and a diverse student body. The academic data raises questions about how the school supports students as they move from elementary into the upper grades, particularly in math, and the lack of graduation rate data leaves an open question about high school completion. A parent considering Education Imagine Academy would want to visit, ask about instruction in the middle and high school years, and understand what postsecondary pathways the school offers.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

67.0%Cohort of 312 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

348 schools plotted. 12 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 40%

School 0% · District 19% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 40 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 57%

School 7% · District 19% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 611%

School 11% · District 18% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 76%

School 6% · District 16% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 29 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 21% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 360%

School 60% · District 36% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 455%

School 55% · District 32% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 32% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 14 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 611%

School 11% · District 24% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 725%

School 25% · District 25%

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 835%

School 35% · District 27% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Science

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 25% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 23% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

This schoolWichita, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income9%Higher-income13%3 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income14%Higher-income32%18 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income23%Higher-income42%19 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income0%Higher-income19%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income14%Higher-income0%14 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income10%Higher-income13%4 pp gap