Meadow Lane Elem

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Olathe, Kansas, Meadow Lane Elem serves 349 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Olathe.

Meadow Lane Elem is one of 52 schools operated by Olathe, a district that serves 28,194 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Meadow Lane Elem lists that 80% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadow Lane Elem sits in the top 10% of Kansas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 57.7%; actual is 75.7%, +18.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Johnson County reports that median household earnings sit near $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Meadow Lane Elem is one.

Olathe Northwest High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadow Lane Elem. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadow Lane Elem ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadow Lane Elem has declined 18%, going from 424 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 84% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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