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Enrollment
1,496
High
DISTRICT 1,194 · STATE 410
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE VALLEY·NCES 201200000541
Blue Valley Northwest High
13260 Switzer Road, Overland Park, KS 66213 · (913) 239-3400 · Johnson County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,496 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Kansas public high schools
- A+Test 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
100 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 27.4:1 · STATE 11.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
218 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 418 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 386 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 347 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 345 | 23% |
Student demographics
54%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
62.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
66.7%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 | 62.8% | 66.7% |
| 2023-24 | 64.9% | 52.6% |
% 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
59.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% 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 Northwest High
Blue Valley Northwest High's state test result (59.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Valley Northwest High this school | 1,496 | 14.6% | 59.5% |
| Blue Valley North High Overland Park | 1,376 | 14.5% | 52.6% |
| Blue Valley High Stilwell | 1,396 | 12.1% | 53.4% |
| Blue Valley Southwest High School Overland Park | 1,057 | 6.1% | 47.4% |
| Andover High Andover | 1,018 | 19.7% | 43.4% |
| Olathe Northwest High School Olathe | 1,958 | 14.6% | 44.1% |
Matched among Kansas high 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 Northwest High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.5% | #1 of 262 | #1 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.7% | #6 of 262 | #3 of 19 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #7 of 262 | #4 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,496 | #28 of 332 | #13 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #130 of 172 | #9 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.8% | #43 of 172 | #9 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.6% | #257 of 263 | #13 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.7% | #63 of 100 | #6 of 14 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,496
-84 (-5%) vs 2020
-10% since 2000-01, when it was 1,668
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 1,496 | 100.1 | 14.9:1 | 15% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 1,441 | 91.6 | 15.7:1 | 15% (212) |
| 2022-23 | 1,344 | 96.3 | 14.0:1 | 13% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 1,580 | 75 | 21.1:1 | 9% (148) |
| 2017-18 | 1,587 | 93.3 | 17.0:1 | 10% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 1,611 | 90 | 17.9:1 | 9% (144) |
| 2010-11 | 1,715 | 89 | 19.3:1 | 7% (115) |
| 2000-01 | 1,668 | 105 | 15.9:1 | 2% (33) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blue Valley Northwest High.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (1,587 to 1,496); teachers up 7% (93.3 to 100.1).
About Blue Valley Northwest High
Blue Valley Northwest High sits in Overland Park, Kansas, and is classified as a high school. There are 1,496 students enrolled, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 265% bigger than the 410-student average for high schools in Kansas.
Blue Valley counts 37 schools and 22,225 students, including Blue Valley Northwest High.
More than half of the students at Blue Valley Northwest High are White (65%). Other reported shares: 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 79% White among all Johnson County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 54%.
Blue Valley Northwest High has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1, with 100.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, high schools in Kansas average 11.9:1. The school has 15% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 27% for public schools in Johnson County.
Blue Valley Northwest High holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 99% of Kansas public high schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Blue Valley Northwest High falls in the middle 80% of Kansas schools: 59.5% actual against 55.2% predicted.
For the population of Johnson County, median household income comes to about $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 3%. Johnson County counts 168 public schools with about 93,598 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Cottonwood Point Elementary, is about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Blue Valley Northwest High places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 1,496, from 1,580 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 21.1:1 in 2020-21, and 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
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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 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
- Oxford MiddleMiddle · 620 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 North HighHigh · 1,376 students
- Blue Valley Southwest High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
Nearby schools
- Cottonwood Point Elementary0.3 mi · 352
- Oxford Middle1.0 mi · 620
- Bentwood Elem1.0 mi · 366
- Oak Hill Elementary1.1 mi · 491
- Harmony Middle1.3 mi · 536
- Harmony Elementary1.3 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About Blue Valley Northwest HighHow many students attend Blue Valley Northwest High?
Blue Valley Northwest High enrolls approximately 1,496 students in grades 09-12.
Is Blue Valley Northwest High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Blue Valley Northwest High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Blue Valley Northwest High have?
Blue Valley Northwest High employs 100 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Blue Valley Northwest High?
Student demographics at Blue Valley Northwest High are roughly 65% White, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, 14% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Blue Valley Northwest High in?
Blue Valley Northwest High is part of Blue Valley.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.