Canyon Creek Elementary

Canyon Creek Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Lenexa, Kansas, one of the schools within Olathe, with 459 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 47% above typical.

Olathe comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 28,194 students; Canyon Creek Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Canyon Creek Elementary records that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to Johnson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Canyon Creek Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Canyon Creek Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 58.0%; Canyon Creek Elementary posts 73.4%, +15.4 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Johnson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Canyon Creek Elementary is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Nearest neighbor: Manchester Park Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Canyon Creek Elementary. On composite proficiency, Canyon Creek Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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