Nike Elementary

Nike Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Gardner, Kansas, overseen by Gardner Edgerton. Current enrollment sits at 365 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

Within Gardner Edgerton, which oversees 11 schools and 5,854 students, Nike Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Nike Elementary reports that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Johnson County's rate of about 27%.

With demographic context factored in, Nike Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.4%; this one delivers 57.1%.

In the broader community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Nike Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grand Star Elementary, around 2.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nike Elementary. On composite proficiency, Nike Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nike Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 365 students in 2018 to 365 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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