Basehor Elementary School

Located at 15602 Leavenworth Rd, in Basehor, Kansas, Basehor Elementary School is a heavily attended K-5 school that enrolls 508 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Basehor-Linwood. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Basehor Elementary School sits 62% bigger than that benchmark.

Basehor Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Basehor-Linwood, a district that caters to 3,092 students overall.

On demographics, Basehor Elementary School reports that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Leavenworth County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Basehor Elementary School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Leavenworth County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Basehor Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.2%; this one delivers 63.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Leavenworth County) records that the typical household earns roughly $89,218 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Basehor Elementary School is one of 30 public schools in Leavenworth County (combined enrollment of about 13,185 students).

Basehor-Linwood High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Basehor Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Basehor Elementary School has shrank 23%, going from 662 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Basehor Elementary School community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.