Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DE SOTO·NCES 200549002021
Belmont Elementary School
5805 Belmont Dr, Shawnee, KS 66226 · (913) 667-1810 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 77% of Kansas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
12.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
89 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
61.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
59.2%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 | 61.8% | 59.2% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 62.6% |
% 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
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.0%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Belmont Elementary School
Belmont Elementary School's state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont Elementary School this school | 381 | 23.4% | 60.5% |
| Meadowlark Elementary Wichita | 372 | 21.8% | 61.6% |
| Quail Run Elementary Lawrence | 421 | 25.2% | 60.2% |
| Christa McAuliffe Elem Lenexa | 400 | 19.0% | 67.7% |
| Walnut Grove Elem Olathe | 394 | 22.1% | 54.9% |
| Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary Overland Park | 480 | 24.2% | 67.2% |
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 Belmont Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #107 of 625 | #60 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #127 of 625 | #65 of 111 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #151 of 625 | #70 of 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #218 of 714 | #60 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #143 of 539 | #23 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.1% | #262 of 540 | #64 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.4% | #580 of 658 | #52 of 111 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #178 of 377 | #36 of 76 |
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
381
-40 (-10%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 458
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 381 | 31 | 12.3:1 | 23% (89) |
| 2023-24 | 369 | 31.6 | 11.7:1 | 17% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 392 | 28.8 | 13.6:1 | 14% (56) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 445 | 26.2 | 17.0:1 | 9% (40) |
| 2015-16 | 414 | 26 | 15.9:1 | 10% (43) |
| 2010-11 | 458 | 18 | 25.4:1 | 11% (51) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Belmont Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (445 to 381); teachers up 18% (26.2 to 31).
About Belmont Elementary School
Belmont Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Shawnee, Kansas, administered by De Soto. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 381 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Kansas enroll around 313, and this school is 22% bigger than that mark.
De Soto counts 7,067 students in its 13 schools, and Belmont Elementary School is one of them.
The largest group at Belmont Elementary School is White students, at 70%. Other students are 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Johnson County residents are about 79% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 48%.
Staffing at Belmont Elementary School comes to 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.3:1. The school's 12.3:1 compares with an average of 13.2:1 for elementary schools in Kansas. On the income side, 23% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Belmont Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 77% of Kansas public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Belmont Elementary School would score about 51.0%. It scores 60.5%, 9.5 points above that figure.
The county, Johnson County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $109,208 a year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Belmont Elementary School, Johnson County has 168 public schools.
Prairie Ridge Elementary School is about 1.1 miles from Belmont Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Belmont Elementary School ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies Belmont Elementary School's location as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Belmont Elementary School had a net loss of 40 students, or 10%. By 2024-25, the school had 12.3 students per teacher, compared with 13.6 in 2020-21.
On allk12, people connected to Belmont Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
620,631
Census ACS
Median income
$109,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
93,598 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in De Soto
- Mill Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,432 students
- De Soto High SchoolHigh · 918 students
- Mill Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 676 students
- Monticello Trails Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Mize Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Clear Creek ElemElementary · 461 students
Other schools in Shawnee
- Shawnee Mission Northwest HighHigh · 1,599 students
- Mill Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,432 students
- Trailridge MiddleMiddle · 752 students
- Hocker Grove MiddleMiddle · 714 students
- Monticello Trails Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Shawanoe ElemElementary · 530 students
Other Belmont Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 12 states are named Belmont Elementary. Belmont Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 13.
- BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSUN CITY CENTER, FL · 776 students
- BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLINCOLN, NE · 773 students
- Belmont Elementary SchoolRoanoke Rapids, NC · 614 students
- Belmont ElementaryWoodbridge, VA · 492 students
- Belmont Elementary SchoolPUEBLO, CO · 394 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Ridge Elementary School1.1 mi · 431
- Mill Valley High School1.4 mi · 1,432
- Monticello Trails Middle School1.4 mi · 655
- Clear Creek Elem1.5 mi · 461
- Riverview Elementary2.1 mi · 441
- Mize Elementary School2.1 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Belmont Elementary SchoolHow large is Belmont Elementary School?
Belmont Elementary School enrolls approximately 381 students in grades PK-05.
Is Belmont Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Belmont Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Belmont Elementary School?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at Belmont Elementary School.
How diverse is Belmont Elementary School?
Belmont Elementary School reports a student body of 70% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Belmont Elementary School?
Belmont Elementary School is overseen by De Soto in Johnson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.