Wichita Public Schools

Wichita Public Schools Unified School District 259
Address
201 North Water Street Wichita, Kansas 67202 United States
Information
Funding type	Public
Superintendent	John Allison
Enrollment	50,639
Website	District Website

Wichita Public Schools is a unified school district (USD 259) headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, United States.

The largest school district in the state of Kansas, USD 259 has these approximate statistics in 2016:

(Of these schools, 24 are specialized-curriculum "magnet" schools)

The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education, in 2006, reported that, in the Fall of 2004, the Wichita Public Schools ranked 91st largest, by total enrollment, among all school districts in the nation. It also indicated that the Wichita Public Schools, in 2003-2004, had a total revenue of $452,437,000

The Wichita Public Schools (USD 259) are governed by a non-partisan elected school board, the USD 259 Board of Education (BoE), which has seven members. Six board members are elected, by voters in six geographically defined Board Districts throughout the overall School District, with the seventh board member elected from the School District at large.

Elections are for four-year terms, and are held in odd-numbered years (winners taking office the following January). Members are elected with staggered terms (four members are up for election in 2017; then, two years later, the remaining three members are elected). The 2017 candidate filing deadline is noon on June 1, followed by a primary election Aug. 1, and a runoff general election Nov. 7.

Following is the list of board members, as of April 2017 (an asterisk by the district number indicates that term expires in January 2018, and is up for election in 2017):

The Wichita Public Schools chief executive is the Superintendent of Schools.

Alicia Thompson will become Superintendent in July, 2017—the District's first woman, and first African-American, to hold that post. Thompson's position, prior to Superintendent, is as the District's assistant superintendent for elementary schools. Thompson is one of the District's few Superintendents, in recent decades, to be promoted to that post from within the district; most have come from out-of-state. However, polling of the public, during the latest superintendent-hiring process, informed the Wichita BoE that the community strongly preferred a local person, from within the Wichita Public Schools system, for the post. Thompson—who attended Wichita Public Schools at all levels, from kindergarten though high school graduation—served in the District as an elementary school teacher, principal and administration executive, prior to appointment as assistant superintendent, then Superintendent.

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