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If you could change one rule at Prairie Creek Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
474
Elementary
DISTRICT 421 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANDOVER·NCES 200336001940
Prairie Creek Elementary
654 YMCA Drive, Andover, KS 67002 · (316) 218-4630 · Butler County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL474 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% 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.
- A-Beats 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
14.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
137 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 51%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 190 | 40% |
| Kindergarten | 32 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 48% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
69.1%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
57.3%
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 57 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 | 69.1% | 57.3% |
| 2023-24 | 61.4% | 62.7% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of KS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
63.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.4%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Kansas's top 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 Prairie Creek Elementary
Prairie Creek Elementary's state test result (63.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Creek Elementary this school | 474 | 28.9% | 63.4% |
| Indian Hills Elementary Topeka | 440 | 28.2% | 53.5% |
| Farley Elementary Topeka | 596 | 32.7% | 50.3% |
| Indian Valley Elementary Overland Park | 431 | 31.1% | 65.9% |
| Marlatt Elem Manhattan | 454 | 29.5% | 60.5% |
| Maize South Elementary Wichita | 514 | 30.5% | 44.3% |
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 Prairie Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Butler County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.4% | #78 of 625 | #2 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #142 of 625 | #5 of 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #79 of 625 | #2 of 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 474 | #93 of 714 | #2 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #396 of 539 | #15 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #238 of 540 | #1 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.9% | #558 of 658 | #17 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #149 of 151 | #11 of 11 |
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
474
+114 (+32%) vs 2020
+30% since 2010-11, when it was 365
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 474 | 32.2 | 14.7:1 | 29% (137) |
| 2023-24 | 480 | 25.7 | 18.7:1 | 30% (143) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 24.7 | 19.5:1 | 29% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 360 | 19 | 18.9:1 | 23% (81) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 23.4 | 20.2:1 | 26% (125) |
| 2015-16 | 420 | 25 | 16.8:1 | 30% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 365 | 21 | 17.4:1 | 28% (101) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (472 to 474); teachers up 38% (23.4 to 32.2).
About Prairie Creek Elementary
Prairie Creek Elementary operates as a large elementary school in Andover, Kansas. A total of 474 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Kansas is about 313 students, so this school is 51% bigger than average.
Prairie Creek Elementary is one of 11 schools in Andover, which enrolls 9,460 students in total.
At Prairie Creek Elementary, White students make up 69% of the student body. The school is also 10% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 4% Black. That is lower than the 87% White share among all Butler County residents. The school's diversity index is 50%, meaning two students picked at random have a 50% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at Prairie Creek Elementary is 32.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 14.7:1. This ratio sits 1.6 above the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 29%. The 37% average for public schools in Butler County is 8 points higher.
allk12 grades Prairie Creek Elementary an A. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Prairie Creek Elementary is a top-10% school in Kansas on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 48.4% with an actual 63.4%.
In the county around the school, Butler County, the median household income is $81,610, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 42 public schools in Butler County, enrolling about 18,052 students in all.
Nearby, Sunflower Elementary School is about 0.9 miles away. Within five miles of Prairie Creek Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 52.3%; Prairie Creek Elementary's is 63.4%, ranking 1st of 8.
Prairie Creek Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is up 32% from 2020-21, when Prairie Creek Elementary had 360 students, to 2024-25, when it had 474. The ratio of students to teachers went from 18.9:1 to 14.7:1 over the same years.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Butler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
68,287
Census ACS
Median income
$81,610
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
18,052 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Andover
- Andover eCademyCombined · 3,617 students
- Andover HighHigh · 1,018 students
- Andover Central High SchoolHigh · 886 students
- Andover Middle SchoolMiddle · 773 students
- Andover Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 642 students
- Robert M. Martin ElementaryElementary · 480 students
Other schools in Andover
- Andover eCademyCombined · 3,617 students
- Andover HighHigh · 1,018 students
- Andover Central High SchoolHigh · 886 students
- Andover Middle SchoolMiddle · 773 students
- Andover Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 642 students
- Cottonwood ElementaryElementary · 388 students
Other Prairie Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Prairie Creek Elementary. Prairie Creek Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- Prairie Creek ElementaryOlathe, KS · 432 students
- Prairie Creek Elementary SchoolRICHARDSON, TX · 304 students
Nearby schools
- Sunflower Elementary School0.9 mi · 367
- Andover Central High School1.2 mi · 886
- Andover Central Middle School1.2 mi · 642
- Meadowlark Elementary2.5 mi · 372
- Andover eCademy2.6 mi · 3,617
- Andover Middle School2.8 mi · 773
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Creek ElementaryHow large is Prairie Creek Elementary?
Prairie Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 474 students in grades PK-05.
Is Prairie Creek Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Prairie Creek Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Prairie Creek Elementary have?
Prairie Creek Elementary employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Prairie Creek Elementary are roughly 69% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Black, 10% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Prairie Creek Elementary?
Prairie Creek Elementary is overseen by Andover in Butler County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.