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What's one thing Deerfield Elem gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
433
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAWRENCE·NCES 200840001366
Deerfield Elem
101 Lawrence Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66049 · (785) 832-5660 · Douglas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL433 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Kansas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
15.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
139 students
DISTRICT 45% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
56.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
51.4%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 | 56.3% | 51.4% |
| 2023-24 | 48.1% | 49.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.8%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 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 Deerfield Elem
Deerfield Elem's state test result (50.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Elem this school | 433 | 32.1% | 50.7% |
| Maize Elementary Maize | 413 | 34.9% | 47.6% |
| Ray Marsh Elem Shawnee | 458 | 32.1% | 64.7% |
| Madison Elementary Gardner | 521 | 33.8% | 46.5% |
| Explorer Elementary School Goddard | 433 | 31.2% | 58.3% |
| Meadowlark Ridge Elem Salina | 431 | 36.7% | 55.7% |
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 Deerfield Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #213 of 625 | #4 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #199 of 625 | #3 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #213 of 625 | #5 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 433 | #138 of 714 | #5 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #439 of 539 | #10 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.9% | #242 of 540 | #9 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.1% | #534 of 658 | #14 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #248 of 377 | #2 of 6 |
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
433
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 521
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 433 | 28.5 | 15.2:1 | 32% (139) |
| 2023-24 | 469 | 28.1 | 16.7:1 | 31% (146) |
| 2022-23 | 457 | 27.7 | 16.5:1 | 28% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 461 | 28 | 16.5:1 | 19% (86) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 29.6 | 16.2:1 | 22% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 30 | 17.4:1 | 29% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 27 | 19.5:1 | 21% (108) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 29 | 17.3:1 | 18% (92) |
| 1990-91 | 521 | 27 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Deerfield Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (480 to 433); teachers down 4% (29.6 to 28.5).
About Deerfield Elem
Deerfield Elem sits in Lawrence, Kansas, and is classified as an elementary school. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 433 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Kansas enroll about 313 students on average.
Deerfield Elem is one of 18 schools in Lawrence, which enrolls 10,380 students in total.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at Deerfield Elem. The rest of enrollment is 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, and 5% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Douglas County's population at about 78%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
A staff of 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 15.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Kansas, 13.2:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 32%.
On the allk12 Grade, Deerfield Elem lands at B, ahead of 55% of Kansas public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Deerfield Elem is 3.9 points above its prediction. Actual: 50.7%. Predicted: 46.8%.
For the population of Douglas County, the median household earns about $69,746 a year, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Douglas County, 30 public schools serve about 13,766 students.
A public school about 0.7 miles away, Lawrence Virtual School, is the closest to Deerfield Elem. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Deerfield Elem ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Deerfield Elem inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Enrollment was 433 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 461. The ratio was 16.5:1 in 2020-21 and 15.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
120,302
Census ACS
Median income
$69,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
13,766 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other Deerfield Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 11 states are named Deerfield Elementary. Deerfield Elem is the 6th largest of the 14.
- Deerfield ElemDeerfield, KS · 123 students
- Deerfield ElementaryLexington, SC · 753 students
- Deerfield ElementaryEdgewood, MD · 708 students
- Deerfield ElementaryIrvine, CA · 615 students
- Deerfield Elementary SchoolMOUNTAINSIDE, NJ · 483 students
Nearby schools
- Lawrence Virtual School0.7 mi · 543
- Sunset Hill Elem1.1 mi · 398
- Lawrence West Middle School1.2 mi · 648
- Hillcrest Elem1.4 mi · 393
- Lawrence Free State High1.8 mi · 1,774
- Quail Run Elementary2.1 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About Deerfield ElemHow many students attend Deerfield Elem?
Deerfield Elem enrolls approximately 433 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Deerfield Elem serve?
Deerfield Elem serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Deerfield Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Deerfield Elem is approximately 15.2:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Deerfield Elem?
At Deerfield Elem, the student body is approximately 68% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Deerfield Elem public or private?
Deerfield Elem is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lawrence.
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