Blue Valley Southwest High School

Blue Valley Southwest High School operates as a sizable high school in Overland Park, Kansas, one of the schools within Blue Valley. Current enrollment sits at 1,057 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 158% above the state mean of about 410.

Within Blue Valley, which oversees 40 schools and 22,491 students, Blue Valley Southwest High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Blue Valley Southwest High School reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 11% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Blue Valley Southwest High School lists 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Blue Valley Southwest High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Johnson County's rate of about 27%.

With demographic context factored in, Blue Valley Southwest High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Johnson County shows median household earnings sit near $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Blue Valley Southwest High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Aubry Bend Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blue Valley Southwest High School ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.3%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blue Valley Southwest High School has shrank 4%, going from 1,101 students in 2018 to 1,057 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 85% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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