Oliver Brown Elementary

Located at 4787 Jackies Way, in Manhattan, Kansas, Oliver Brown Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that hosts 338 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Manhattan-Ogden.

Within Manhattan-Ogden, which oversees 14 schools and 7,204 students, Oliver Brown Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oliver Brown Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 89% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Oliver Brown Elementary lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Pottawatomie County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Oliver Brown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of +2.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Pottawatomie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,325 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Oliver Brown Elementary is one of 16 public schools in Pottawatomie County (combined enrollment of about 4,283 students).

The closest other public school is Northview Elem, roughly 3.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oliver Brown Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

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