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What tradition at Canyon Creek Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
459
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLATHE·NCES 201014002110
Canyon Creek Elementary
24001 W 97th Terr, Lenexa, KS 66227 · (913) 780-7400 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL459 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of Kansas public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
40 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
77.9%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
78.5%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 | 77.9% | 78.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.3% | 71.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Kansas's top 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 Canyon Creek Elementary
Canyon Creek Elementary's state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Creek Elementary this school | 459 | 8.7% | 73.4% |
| Robert M. Martin Elementary Wichita | 480 | 9.2% | 64.1% |
| Prairie Creek Elementary Olathe | 432 | 6.9% | 64.4% |
| Timber Sage Elementary School Olathe | 401 | 7.7% | 66.0% |
| Riverview Elementary Shawnee | 441 | 14.3% | 59.7% |
| Bentwood Elem Overland Park | 366 | 12.8% | 59.9% |
Matched among Kansas elementary 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 Canyon Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #13 of 625 | #10 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.5% | #9 of 625 | #7 of 111 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.9% | #18 of 625 | #13 of 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 459 | #106 of 714 | #29 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #462 of 539 | #95 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.3% | #346 of 540 | #88 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.7% | #639 of 658 | #94 of 111 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
459
+101 (+28%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 459 | 29.5 | 15.6:1 | 9% (40) |
| 2023-24 | 444 | 29.8 | 14.9:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2022-23 | 436 | 30.2 | 14.5:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 7% (24) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Canyon Creek Elementary.
About Canyon Creek Elementary
Canyon Creek Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school found in Lenexa, Kansas. The school counts 459 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 47% larger than the 313 average for elementary schools in Kansas.
Canyon Creek Elementary belongs to Olathe, a district of 52 schools and 28,194 students.
Canyon Creek Elementary is 78% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. The White share in Johnson County as a whole is similar, at about 79%. Pick two students at random and there is a 37% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 15.6:1 comes from the school's 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas. The lunch program counts 9% of students at Canyon Creek Elementary as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 27% for public schools in Johnson County.
The allk12 Grade for Canyon Creek Elementary is A+. Compared with Kansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 95% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Canyon Creek Elementary is +15.4 points, in the top 10% of Kansas. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 73.4%, and the predicted rate is 58.0%.
Census estimates describe Johnson County this way: the median household income is $109,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 58%, and about 3% of people live in poverty. Besides Canyon Creek Elementary, Johnson County has 167 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Manchester Park Elementary, about 1.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Canyon Creek Elementary is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The NCES locale for Canyon Creek Elementary is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment at Canyon Creek Elementary grew 28% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 358 to 459 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 14.3:1 to 15.6:1.
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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 Olathe
- Olathe North Sr HighHigh · 2,011 students
- Olathe Northwest High SchoolHigh · 1,958 students
- Olathe East Sr HighHigh · 1,844 students
- Olathe South Sr HighHigh · 1,778 students
- Olathe West High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Prairie Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
Other schools in Lenexa
- Mill Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 676 students
- Manchester Park ElementaryElementary · 616 students
- Rosehill ElemElementary · 477 students
- Rising Star ElemElementary · 473 students
- Christa McAuliffe ElemElementary · 400 students
- Sunflower ElemElementary · 390 students
Other Canyon Creek Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Canyon Creek Elementary. Canyon Creek Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Canyon Creek ElementaryBothell, WA · 866 students
- Canyon Creek Elementary SchoolAURORA, CO · 477 students
- Canyon Creek Elementary SchoolRICHARDSON, TX · 374 students
- Canyon Creek Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 350 students
Nearby schools
- Manchester Park Elementary1.3 mi · 616
- Prairie Trail Middle School1.9 mi · 709
- Cedar Creek Elem2.0 mi · 370
- Meadow Lane Elem2.2 mi · 349
- Mill Creek Middle School2.3 mi · 676
- Olathe Northwest High School2.4 mi · 1,958
Frequently asked questions
About Canyon Creek ElementaryHow large is Canyon Creek Elementary?
Canyon Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 459 students in grades PK-05.
Is Canyon Creek Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Canyon Creek Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Canyon Creek Elementary?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Canyon Creek Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Canyon Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Canyon Creek Elementary are roughly 78% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Canyon Creek Elementary in?
Canyon Creek Elementary is part of Olathe.
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