Central Elem

As an intimate elementary campus in Olathe, Kansas, Central Elem hosts 254 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Olathe.

Olathe runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 28,194 students. Central Elem is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Central Elem records that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 27% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.4%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Johnson County shows median household earnings sit near $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Central Elem is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Step Up Virtual is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Central Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.2%.

Central Elem operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 265 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 27% across the same window.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Central Elem typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.