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Piper Creek Elementary
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Piper Creek Elementary
Located at 4420 N. 107th Street, in Kansas City, Kansas, Piper Creek Elementary is a large elementary campus that caters to 598 students (grades 3 through 5), run under Piper-Kansas City. That puts it 91% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.
Piper-Kansas City runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,835 students. Piper Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Piper Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Hispanic, 14% Black, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 42% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Piper Creek Elementary has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Wyandotte County's rate of about 75%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Piper Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of +5.5 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wyandotte County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Wyandotte County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), Piper Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Piper Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Piper Creek Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 22.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Five-year trend. Piper Creek Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 31% since 2018, when it stood at 455 (now 598). The White share of enrollment contracted from 64% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
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