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Blue River Elementary · Overland Park, KS
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KAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meeting + Exceeding.
English Language Arts
75.2%
State avg 44.5%
District avg 70.6%
County avg 59.4%
+5.7pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
64.5%
State avg 38.8%
District avg 67.5%
County avg 56.6%
-5.7pp since 2023-24
Science
68.2%
State avg 41.6%
District avg 68.0%
County avg 55.4%
+5.9pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 65 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 68 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45, 39, and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points and science scores are up about 6 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.3%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.0pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade ALL75.2%44.5%25864.5%38.8%26268.2%41.6%85

2-year history

All grades, all students. Blue River   Kansas avg

English Language Arts

34702023-2445752024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2575.2%70.6%59.4%44.5%
SY 2023-2469.5%57.6%47.6%33.7%

Mathematics

32702023-2439652024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2564.5%67.5%56.6%38.8%
SY 2023-2470.2%58.5%47.8%31.8%

Science

32622023-2442682024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2568.2%68.0%55.4%41.6%
SY 2023-2462.3%53.5%43.0%32.4%

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How to read these scores

What is KAP?
KAP is the statewide standardized test administered by Kansas public schools.
What does "% Meeting + Exceeding" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 75.2% mean for English Language Arts at Blue River Elementary?
It means about 75.2 percent of students tested at Blue River Elementary performed at grade level or above on the KAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Kansas that year was 44.5%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Kansas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Kansas State Department of Education, Kansas Assessment Program (KAP). School-level All Students subgroup, scraped from the KSDE Report Card via Chrome MCP. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meeting + Exceeding" rate (Levels 3 + 4 on the 4-level KAP scale).
How often is it updated?
KAP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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