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Enrollment
593
Middle
DISTRICT 570 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE VALLEY·NCES 201200000115
Blue Valley Middle
5001 W. 163rd Terrace, Overland Park, KS 66085 · (913) 239-5100 · Johnson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL593 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of Kansas public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
92 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 195 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 212 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 186 | 31% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
64.4%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
64.5%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 | 64.4% | 64.5% |
| 2023-24 | 48.2% | 52.4% |
% 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
54.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% 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 →
Schools most like Blue Valley Middle
Blue Valley Middle's state test result (54.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Valley Middle this school | 593 | 15.5% | 54.3% |
| Chisholm Trail Middle School Olathe | 569 | 13.2% | 49.9% |
| California Trail Middle School Olathe | 584 | 13.5% | 50.6% |
| Andover Middle School Andover | 773 | 19.5% | 56.9% |
| Oxford Middle Overland Park | 620 | 20.2% | 59.5% |
| Prairie Trail Middle School Olathe | 709 | 7.5% | 58.9% |
Matched among Kansas middle 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 Blue Valley Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #20 of 192 | #14 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #14 of 192 | #12 of 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #16 of 192 | #13 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 593 | #57 of 225 | #17 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #88 of 161 | #20 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #87 of 161 | #18 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.5% | #179 of 195 | #17 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #48 of 54 | #8 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
593
+31 (+6%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 592
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 593 | 44.2 | 13.4:1 | 16% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 573 | 40.6 | 14.1:1 | 14% (82) |
| 2022-23 | 562 | 43.1 | 13.0:1 | 15% (87) |
| 2020-21 | 562 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 12% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 40.5 | 14.4:1 | 14% (79) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 38 | 14.3:1 | 10% (52) |
| 2010-11 | 535 | 38 | 14.1:1 | 8% (44) |
| 2000-01 | 480 | 35 | 13.7:1 | 3% (12) |
| 1990-91 | 592 | 40 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blue Valley Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (582 to 593); teachers up 9% (40.5 to 44.2).
About Blue Valley Middle
Blue Valley Middle is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a middle-grades school in Overland Park, Kansas. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 593 students on the rolls. Middle schools in Kansas average about 402 students, which makes this school 48% bigger than average.
Blue Valley has 22,225 students spread across 37 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Blue Valley Middle is 72% White. The remaining shares are 9% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 47, compared with 70 nationally.
Blue Valley Middle reported 44.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.4:1. Middle schools in Kansas average 12.7:1, 0.7 fewer students per teacher than here. There are 92 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 16% of enrollment. That rate is below the 27% average among public schools in Johnson County.
On the allk12 Grade, Blue Valley Middle lands at A, ahead of 86% of Kansas public middle schools.
In Kansas, Blue Valley Middle is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 54.3% actual against a predicted 54.8%.
For Johnson County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $109,208, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 3%. The county has 168 public schools and about 93,598 students.
Of the public schools around it, Blue Valley Middle is closest to Blue River Elementary, about 0.1 miles away. Blue Valley Middle has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Blue Valley Middle ranks 7th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 54.3% against a local average of 65.2%.
Under the NCES locale system, Blue Valley Middle is City: Mid-size.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 593, compared with 562 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 16.1:1 to 13.4:1.
This page is set up for the Blue Valley Middle community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Blue Valley
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
- Blue Valley Southwest High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
- Aubry Bend Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
Other schools in Overland Park
- Shawnee Mission West HighHigh · 1,599 students
- Shawnee Mission South HighHigh · 1,574 students
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Shawnee Mission North HighHigh · 1,502 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
Nearby schools
- Blue River Elementary0.1 mi · 472
- Sunrise Point Elementary0.8 mi · 476
- Blue Valley High0.9 mi · 1,396
- Stanley Elementary1.2 mi · 610
- Blue Valley Virtual Program2.2 mi · 302
- Lakewood Elementary2.4 mi · 456
Frequently asked questions
About Blue Valley MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Blue Valley Middle?
Blue Valley Middle enrolls approximately 593 students in grades 06-08.
Is Blue Valley Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Blue Valley Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Blue Valley Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Blue Valley Middle is approximately 13.4:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Blue Valley Middle?
At Blue Valley Middle, the student body is approximately 72% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Blue Valley Middle public or private?
Blue Valley Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Blue Valley.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.