Prairie Creek Elementary

Prairie Creek Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school in Olathe, Kansas, overseen by Spring Hill, enrolls 432 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% above the state mean of about 313.

Within Spring Hill, which oversees 11 schools and 5,841 students, Prairie Creek Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Prairie Creek Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Johnson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Prairie Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 64.4%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Johnson County put the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Prairie Creek Elementary is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Woodland Spring Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prairie Creek Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Prairie Creek Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 59.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Creek Elementary has decreased 26%, going from 580 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 90% to 81%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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