Lowman Hill Elem

Located at 1101 SW Garfield Ave, in Topeka, Kansas, Lowman Hill Elem is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that works with 294 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Topeka Public Schools.

Topeka Public Schools runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 11,695 students. Lowman Hill Elem is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lowman Hill Elem logs that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 37% White, 13% multiracial, 11% Black. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Shawnee County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lowman Hill Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 30.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Shawnee County shows median household income runs about $67,104, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lowman Hill Elem is one of 54 public schools in Shawnee County (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students).

Robinson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 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), Lowman Hill Elem ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 312 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 38% across the same window.

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