Blue Valley Northwest High

Set in Overland Park, Kansas, Blue Valley Northwest High is a large secondary school, overseen by Blue Valley. It teaches 1,496 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 265% above the state mean of about 410.

Blue Valley comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 22,491 students; Blue Valley Northwest High is among them.

On demographics, Blue Valley Northwest High reports that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blue Valley Northwest High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 59.5%.

In the surrounding community, Johnson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Blue Valley Northwest High is one.

The closest other public school is Cottonwood Point Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blue Valley Northwest High. On composite proficiency, Blue Valley Northwest High comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blue Valley Northwest High has shrank 6%, going from 1,587 students in 2018 to 1,496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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