Prairie Center Elem

Prairie Center Elem operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Olathe, Kansas, overseen by Olathe. Current enrollment sits at 360 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Olathe runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 28,194 students. Prairie Center Elem is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Prairie Center Elem shows that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest breaks down as 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Prairie Center Elem higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prairie Center Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.2%, the actual is 64.5%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Johnson County shows median household earnings sit near $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Prairie Center Elem is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Nearest neighbor: Olathe West High School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Prairie Center Elem comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Prairie Center Elem's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 357 (now 360).

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Prairie Center Elem community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.