Bentwood Elem

Bentwood Elem is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Overland Park, Kansas, part of Olathe, hosting 366 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Bentwood Elem is one of 52 schools operated by Olathe, a district that works with 28,194 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bentwood Elem reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bentwood Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.1%; this one delivers 59.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Johnson County put median household income runs about $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Bentwood Elem is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Cottonwood Point Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bentwood Elem. On composite proficiency, Bentwood Elem comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.

Bentwood Elem operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 14%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 12% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.