Six candidates are running in the nonpartisan general election for three seats on the Wichita Public Schools school board in Kansas on November 7, 2023.
Wichita Public Schools (WPS) is the largest school district in Kansas by enrollment, with 46,657 students during the 2021-2022 school year. The school board consists of seven members elected to four-year terms. Six board members are elected by district, and one is elected at large. Members are elected on a staggered basis in November of odd-numbered years.
While school board elections are nonpartisan, a slate endorsed by the Sedgwick Republican Party won three of the four seats up for election in 2021. According to The Wichita Eagle’s Mathew Kelly, the results of this year’s election could decide the ideological majority on the seven-member board.
