Broken Arrow Elem

Broken Arrow Elem, an average-sized elementary school in Shawnee, Kansas, run under Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, hosts 382 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 22% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Shawnee Mission Pub Sch comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 26,330 students; Broken Arrow Elem is among them.

In terms of who attends, Broken Arrow Elem lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 20% Black, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Broken Arrow Elem has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Broken Arrow Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.0%; this one delivers 45.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Johnson County shows median household income runs about $109,208, 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 Broken Arrow Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ray Marsh Elem, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Broken Arrow Elem comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Broken Arrow Elem's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 441 (now 382). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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