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Indian Valley Elementary
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Kansas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Indian Valley Elementary
As a mid-sized primary school in Overland Park, Kansas, Indian Valley Elementary caters to 431 students from grades K through 5, operated by Blue Valley. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 38% above typical.
Blue Valley comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 22,491 students; Indian Valley Elementary is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Indian Valley Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Indian Valley Elementary lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 31% of students at Indian Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indian Valley Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 47.3%; Indian Valley Elementary posts 65.9%, +18.6 points above that line.
Around the school, census data for Johnson County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Indian Valley Elementary is one.
The closest other public school is Oak Hill Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Indian Valley Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.
Indian Valley Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Indian Valley Elementary has grew 12%, going from 385 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 18% across the same window.
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