Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary

Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary is a K-5 school of roomy scale in Overland Park, Kansas, one of the schools within Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, serveing 480 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 53% larger than the state mean of about 313.

Shawnee Mission Pub Sch runs 45 schools in total, collectively educating 26,330 students. Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.6%; Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary posts 67.2%, +16.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, census data for Johnson County shows median household income runs about $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Westridge Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 521 (now 480). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 78% to 73% over that span.

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