Comanche Elem

As a mid-tier elementary school in Overland Park, Kansas, Comanche Elem educates 369 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of Shawnee Mission Pub Sch.

Within Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, which oversees 45 schools and 26,330 students, Comanche Elem is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Comanche Elem records that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% White, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Comanche Elem has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 78% 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Comanche Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.9%; this one delivers 35.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Johnson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Johnson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), Comanche Elem is one campus in the mix.

Shawnee Mission West High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Comanche Elem. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Comanche Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Comanche Elem has shrank 25%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 369 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 16% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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