Manchester Park Elementary

Set in Lenexa, Kansas, Manchester Park Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community, run under Olathe. It teaches 616 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Manchester Park Elementary sits 97% larger than that benchmark.

Manchester Park Elementary is one of 52 schools operated by Olathe, a district that caters to 28,194 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Manchester Park Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Johnson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Manchester Park Elementary reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Manchester Park Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Manchester Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 67.0%, a residual of +7.4 points.

Across the wider county, 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%. Across Johnson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), Manchester Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Prairie Trail Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Manchester Park Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.6%.

Manchester Park Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Manchester Park Elementary has increased 9%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 616 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 86% to 77%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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