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Enrollment
560
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAWRENCE·NCES 200840001730
Langston Hughes Elem
1101 George Williams Way, Lawrence, KS 66049 · (785) 832-5890 · Douglas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL560 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% of Kansas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
19.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
86 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 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 117 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
42%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
79.8%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
74.5%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 | 79.8% | 74.5% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 72.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% 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%.
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 Langston Hughes Elem
Langston Hughes Elem's state test result (73.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langston Hughes Elem this school | 560 | 15.4% | 73.7% |
| Oak Hill Elementary Overland Park | 491 | 16.9% | 62.9% |
| Robert M. Martin Elementary Wichita | 480 | 9.2% | 64.1% |
| Riverview Elementary Shawnee | 441 | 14.3% | 59.7% |
| Canyon Creek Elementary Lenexa | 459 | 8.7% | 73.4% |
| Jay Shideler Elementary Topeka | 492 | 15.2% | 62.3% |
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 Langston Hughes Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.7% | #12 of 625 | #1 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.5% | #18 of 625 | #1 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.8% | #12 of 625 | #1 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 560 | #38 of 714 | #2 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #523 of 539 | #14 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #318 of 540 | #11 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.4% | #607 of 658 | #16 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.2% | #72 of 151 | #7 of 9 |
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
560
+111 (+25%) vs 2020
+215% since 2000-01, when it was 178
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 18.7:1
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 | 560 | 29.2 | 19.2:1 | 15% (86) |
| 2023-24 | 544 | 29.9 | 18.2:1 | 14% (77) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 24 | 19.8:1 | 14% (66) |
| 2020-21 | 449 | 24 | 18.7:1 | 8% (38) |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 28 | 18.1:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 29 | 17.7:1 | 10% (53) |
| 2010-11 | 519 | 27 | 19.2:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 178 | 12 | 14.8:1 | 11% (20) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Langston Hughes Elem.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (508 to 560); teachers up 4% (28 to 29.2).
About Langston Hughes Elem
Langston Hughes Elem is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Lawrence, Kansas. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 560 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Kansas enroll about 313 students on average.
Langston Hughes Elem is a school in Lawrence. The district has 18 schools and 10,380 students.
At Langston Hughes Elem, 75% of students are White. After that, the student body is 10% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 6% Hispanic. Census estimates put Douglas County at about 78% White, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Langston Hughes Elem scores 42%.
There are about 19.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Langston Hughes Elem, which has 29.2. Elementary schools in Kansas average 13.2:1, 6.0 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Langston Hughes Elem is about 15%. On average, public schools in Douglas County report 40%.
Langston Hughes Elem earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 97% of Kansas public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Langston Hughes Elem would score about 54.9%. It scores 73.7%, a top-10% result among Kansas schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Douglas County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $69,746, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Douglas County's 30 public schools enroll about 13,766 students and include Langston Hughes Elem.
Langston Hughes Elem's nearest public school is Quail Run Elementary (about 1.4 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Langston Hughes Elem ranks 1st of 9 on average proficiency.
Langston Hughes Elem falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 560, from 449 in 2020-21.
People who know Langston Hughes Elem can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
- Billy Mills Middle SchoolMiddle · 494 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
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
- Billy Mills Middle SchoolMiddle · 494 students
Other Langston Hughes Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Langston Hughes Elementary. Langston Hughes Elem is the largest of the 2.
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolEAST ORANGE, NJ · 554 students
Nearby schools
- Quail Run Elementary1.4 mi · 421
- Lawrence Free State High1.5 mi · 1,774
- Lawrence Southwest Middle School2.3 mi · 641
- Sunflower Elementary2.4 mi · 444
- Sunset Hill Elem3.1 mi · 398
- Lawrence West Middle School3.2 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Langston Hughes ElemWhat is the total enrollment at Langston Hughes Elem?
Langston Hughes Elem enrolls approximately 560 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Langston Hughes Elem serve?
Langston Hughes Elem serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Langston Hughes Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Langston Hughes Elem is approximately 19.2:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Langston Hughes Elem?
Langston Hughes Elem reports a student body of 75% White, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Langston Hughes Elem?
Langston Hughes Elem is overseen by Lawrence in Douglas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.