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What's one thing Basehor Elementary School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BASEHOR-LINWOOD·NCES 200378001184
Basehor Elementary School
15602 Leavenworth Rd, Basehor, KS 66007 · (913) 724-1038 · Leavenworth County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Kansas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
106 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 66 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Basehor-Linwood. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
69.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
65.6%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.3% | 65.6% |
| 2023-24 | 58.1% | 59.7% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Basehor Elementary School
Basehor Elementary School's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basehor Elementary School this school | 508 | 20.9% | 63.5% |
| Riley County Grade School Riley | 514 | 23.2% | 61.3% |
| Rockville Elementary School Louisburg | 419 | 25.1% | N/A |
| Broadmoor Elementary Louisburg | 388 | 23.2% | 64.3% |
| Tanglewood Elem Derby | 607 | 24.4% | 49.9% |
| St George Elem St George | 374 | 23.8% | 55.0% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Basehor Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Leavenworth County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #77 of 625 | #5 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #70 of 625 | #4 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #74 of 625 | #4 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #69 of 714 | #3 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #361 of 539 | #12 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.2% | #404 of 540 | #14 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.9% | #590 of 658 | #11 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.3% | #82 of 377 | #6 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
508
-286 (-36%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 515
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 508 | 35.6 | 14.3:1 | 21% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 35.1 | 15.0:1 | 18% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 505 | 34.9 | 14.5:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2020-21 | 794 | 46 | 17.3:1 | 9% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 662 | 39.1 | 16.9:1 | 18% (121) |
| 2015-16 | 575 | 33 | 17.4:1 | 25% (145) |
| 2010-11 | 473 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 23% (110) |
| 2000-01 | 536 | 24 | 22.3:1 | 7% (37) |
| 1990-91 | 515 | 25 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Basehor Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (662 to 508); teachers down 9% (39.1 to 35.6).
About Basehor Elementary School
Families in Basehor, Kansas, are served by Basehor Elementary School, a large elementary school. The school reports 508 students in pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 62% bigger than the 313 average for elementary schools in Kansas.
Basehor-Linwood enrolls 3,092 students, and its 7 schools include Basehor Elementary School.
White students make up 83% of enrollment at Basehor Elementary School. Smaller groups are 9% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The White share in Leavenworth County as a whole is similar, at about 80%. Pick two students at random and there is a 30% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1 at Basehor Elementary School, with 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. On average, elementary schools in Kansas have 13.2:1, compared with 14.3:1 here. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 21% of enrollment. For comparison, public schools in Leavenworth County average 34%.
The allk12 Grade for Basehor Elementary School is A. Compared with Kansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 86% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Basehor Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 63.5% and a predicted 52.2%.
County data help place the school in context: in Leavenworth County, the median household income is $89,218, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. In all, Leavenworth County has 30 public schools and roughly 13,185 students.
Basehor-Linwood Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles of Basehor Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Basehor Elementary School is 1st of 7 on proficiency.
Basehor Elementary School is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment is down 36% from 2020-21, when Basehor Elementary School had 794 students, to 2024-25, when it had 508. Students per teacher fell from 17.3 in 2020-21 to 14.3 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Leavenworth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
83,123
Census ACS
Median income
$89,218
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
13,185 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Basehor-Linwood
- Basehor-Linwood High SchoolHigh · 882 students
- Basehor-Linwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
- Gray Hawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Basehor-Linwood Virtual SchoolCombined · 170 students
Other schools in Basehor
- Basehor-Linwood High SchoolHigh · 882 students
- Basehor-Linwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
- Gray Hawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Basehor-Linwood Virtual SchoolCombined · 170 students
Nearby schools
- Basehor-Linwood Virtual School0.9 mi · 170
- Basehor-Linwood High School0.9 mi · 882
- Gray Hawk Elementary School1.5 mi · 285
- Piper High3.3 mi · 913
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary School3.5 mi · 320
- Basehor-Linwood Middle School3.5 mi · 679
Frequently asked questions
About Basehor Elementary SchoolHow large is Basehor Elementary School?
Basehor Elementary School enrolls approximately 508 students in grades PK-05.
Is Basehor Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Basehor Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Basehor Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Basehor Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Basehor Elementary School?
Basehor Elementary School reports a student body of 83% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Basehor Elementary School public or private?
Basehor Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Basehor-Linwood.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.