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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Oak Hill Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
491
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE VALLEY·NCES 201200001657
Oak Hill Elementary
10200 W. 124th St., Overland Park, KS 66213 · (913) 239-6900 · Johnson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL491 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Kansas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
15.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
83 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 51%
Community
6
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 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
69.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
58.2%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 | 69.3% | 58.2% |
| 2023-24 | 60.1% | 55.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 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 Oak Hill Elementary
Oak Hill Elementary's state test result (62.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hill Elementary this school | 491 | 16.9% | 62.9% |
| Langston Hughes Elem Lawrence | 560 | 15.4% | 73.7% |
| Riverview Elementary Shawnee | 441 | 14.3% | 59.7% |
| Bentwood Elem Overland Park | 366 | 12.8% | 59.9% |
| Prairie Center Elem Olathe | 360 | 16.7% | 64.5% |
| Robert M. Martin Elementary Wichita | 480 | 9.2% | 64.1% |
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 Oak Hill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #83 of 625 | #50 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #136 of 625 | #68 of 111 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #76 of 625 | #51 of 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 491 | #80 of 714 | #19 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #470 of 539 | #99 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.7% | #292 of 540 | #68 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #603 of 658 | #67 of 111 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.9% | #78 of 151 | #13 of 28 |
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
491
+52 (+12%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 555
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 16.3:1
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 | 491 | 31.3 | 15.7:1 | 17% (83) |
| 2023-24 | 499 | 32.4 | 15.4:1 | 17% (85) |
| 2022-23 | 466 | 35.7 | 13.1:1 | 14% (64) |
| 2020-21 | 439 | 27 | 16.3:1 | 12% (53) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 34.8 | 13.0:1 | 13% (58) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 33 | 13.9:1 | 15% (71) |
| 2010-11 | 482 | 30 | 16.1:1 | 13% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 536 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 1% (8) |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 32 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Hill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (451 to 491); teachers down 10% (34.8 to 31.3).
About Oak Hill Elementary
Oak Hill Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Overland Park, Kansas. The school's 491 students are in kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 57% higher than the average for elementary schools in Kansas, which is about 313.
Blue Valley has 22,225 students in 37 schools, and Oak Hill Elementary is one of those schools.
Oak Hill Elementary is 73% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 11% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 4% Black. Oak Hill Elementary's diversity index is 45%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal staffing data show 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Oak Hill Elementary and a ratio of 15.7:1. This ratio sits 2.5 above the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 17% of students. That is lower than the 27% average for public schools in Johnson County.
Oak Hill Elementary is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 79% of Kansas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Oak Hill Elementary is 54.1%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 62.9%.
Within Johnson County, the median household income is $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Oak Hill Elementary, Johnson County has 167 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Oak Hill Elementary to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to Oxford Middle. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Oak Hill Elementary is 4th among 9 schools close by.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment has grown by 52 students since 2020-21, to 491.
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
620,631
Census ACS
Median income
$109,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
93,598 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Blue Valley
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
- Blue Valley Southwest High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
- Aubry Bend Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
Other schools in Overland Park
- Shawnee Mission West HighHigh · 1,599 students
- Shawnee Mission South HighHigh · 1,574 students
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Shawnee Mission North HighHigh · 1,502 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
Other Oak Hill Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 13 states are named Oak Hill Elementary. Oak Hill Elementary is the 10th largest of the 17.
- Oak Hill ElementaryAntelope, CA · 700 students
- Oak Hill ElementaryEscondido, CA · 679 students
- Oak Hill Elementary SchoolCovington, GA · 663 students
- Oak Hill ElementarySeverna Park, MD · 628 students
- Oak Hill ElementaryHerndon, VA · 628 students
Nearby schools
- Oxford Middle0.2 mi · 620
- Cottonwood Point Elementary0.9 mi · 352
- Indian Valley Elementary1.0 mi · 431
- Blue Valley Northwest High1.1 mi · 1,496
- Bentwood Elem1.3 mi · 366
- Heartland Elementary1.5 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Hill ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Oak Hill Elementary?
Oak Hill Elementary enrolls approximately 491 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Oak Hill Elementary serve?
Oak Hill Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oak Hill Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oak Hill Elementary is approximately 15.7:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Oak Hill Elementary?
Student demographics at Oak Hill Elementary are roughly 73% White, 11% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Oak Hill Elementary in?
Oak Hill Elementary is part of Blue Valley.
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