Forest View Elem

As a mid-sized primary school in Olathe, Kansas, Forest View Elem instructs 419 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Olathe. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Across the 52 schools in Olathe (28,194 students total), Forest View Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Forest View Elem shows that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Johnson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 11% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Forest View Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 63.6%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate 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%. Forest View Elem is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Mission Trail Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest View Elem ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.2%.

Forest View Elem operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 419 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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