Wichita East High School

Overview

Wichita East High School, founded in 1878, is a public high school on a 44-acre Collegiate Gothic-style campus in Wichita, operated by Wichita USD 259 -- a district of 81 schools total per NCES district data. It offers an International Baccalaureate magnet program that draws students from across the city, and shares its campus with WSU Tech, a division of Wichita State University.

Academics

No independently verified Kansas state assessment data (via the Kansas Report Card) was located for this profile; check the Kansas State Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school sits centrally in Wichita, in Sedgwick County.

Crime & safety

Multiple independent sources describe Wichita's crime rate as elevated relative to both Kansas and national averages, with reasonable directional agreement: an overall crime rate 20-60% above the national average depending on source, a D or D- safety grade, and percentile rankings in the single digits to low teens (safer than only 9-12% of comparable cities). One source specifically reports violent and property crime both fell roughly 52-53% from 2023 to 2024, which -- if accurate -- would be a very large single-year swing worth verifying against the Wichita Police Department's own published statistics rather than taking at face value. Separately, one source describes 84% of individual Wichita neighborhoods as grading A or B for safety, similar to the pattern seen in Indianapolis and other cities in this directory: an elevated citywide aggregate alongside mostly-safer individual neighborhoods.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Given the unverified large year-over-year crime-drop claim and the general spread across sources, we're not showing a rating for this profile. See our ratings methodology.

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