Harmony Elementary

Located at 14140 Grant St., in Overland Park, Kansas, Harmony Elementary is a big elementary campus that teaches 562 students (grades K through 5), part of Blue Valley. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Harmony Elementary sits 80% bigger than that benchmark.

Blue Valley runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 22,491 students. Harmony Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Harmony Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 17% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 11% 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Harmony Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate 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%. Harmony Elementary is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Harmony Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harmony Elementary. On composite proficiency, Harmony Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.

Harmony Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Harmony Elementary's enrollment has climbed 7% since 2018, when it stood at 526 (now 562). The White share of enrollment fell from 74% to 63% over that span.

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