Enrollment
371
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE VALLEY·NCES 201200000534
Prairie Star Elementary
3800 W. 143rd St., Leawood, KS 66224 · (913) 239-7100 · Johnson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL371 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Kansas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
13.1:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
27 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 47% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
74.9%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
73.3%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 | 74.9% | 73.3% |
| 2023-24 | 61.3% | 69.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 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 Star Elementary
Prairie Star Elementary's state test result (70.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Star Elementary this school | 371 | 7.3% | 70.3% |
| Wheatland Elementary Wichita | 443 | 10.8% | 75.8% |
| Morse Elementary Overland Park | 338 | 11.2% | 69.3% |
| Meadow Lane Elem Olathe | 349 | 9.5% | 75.7% |
| Timber Sage Elementary School Olathe | 401 | 7.7% | 66.0% |
| Cottonwood Point Elementary Overland Park | 352 | 9.1% | 76.7% |
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 Star Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #25 of 625 | #16 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #22 of 625 | #15 of 111 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #30 of 625 | #21 of 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 371 | #238 of 714 | #64 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #219 of 539 | #37 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.9% | #324 of 540 | #81 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.3% | #644 of 658 | #99 of 111 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #315 of 377 | #63 of 76 |
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
371
+5 (+1%) vs 2020
-14% since 2000-01, when it was 429
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 371 | 28.4 | 13.1:1 | 7% (27) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 28.5 | 14.3:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 29.7 | 13.0:1 | 8% (30) |
| 2020-21 | 366 | 23 | 15.9:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2017-18 | 389 | 29.4 | 13.2:1 | 4% (15) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 30 | 14.7:1 | 4% (16) |
| 2010-11 | 551 | 35 | 15.7:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 429 | 31 | 13.8:1 | 5% (22) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Star Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (389 to 371); teachers down 3% (29.4 to 28.4).
About Prairie Star Elementary
Leawood, Kansas, is home to Prairie Star Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school had 371 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Blue Valley enrolls 22,225 students in 37 schools, including Prairie Star Elementary.
White students account for 75% of enrollment at Prairie Star Elementary. Other students are 11% Asian, 9% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. For comparison, Johnson County is about 79% White. By the diversity index, Prairie Star Elementary comes in at 41%.
Teachers at Prairie Star Elementary total 28.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Kansas have a similar average ratio of 13.2:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 7%. The average for public schools in Johnson County is 27%.
The allk12 Grade for Prairie Star Elementary is A. Compared with Kansas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 90% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Prairie Star Elementary is 11.6 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 70.3% actual, 58.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Kansas.
Census Bureau estimates for Johnson County show that median household income is about $109,208, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 168 public schools operate in Johnson County, serving about 93,598 students.
Prairie Star Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 70.3% is above the 64.3% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (366) and 2024-25 (371). The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.9:1 to 13.1:1.
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
620,631
Census ACS
Median income
$109,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
93,598 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Blue Valley
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
- Blue Valley Southwest High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
- Aubry Bend Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
Other schools in Leawood
- Leawood ElementaryElementary · 533 students
- Leawood MiddleMiddle · 493 students
- Brookwood ElemElementary · 466 students
- Prairie Star MiddleMiddle · 438 students
- Mission Trail ElementaryElementary · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Star Middle0.2 mi · 438
- Mission Trail Elementary1.2 mi · 384
- Overland Trail Middle1.8 mi · 540
- Lakewood Elementary1.9 mi · 456
- Sunrise Point Elementary1.9 mi · 476
- Lakewood Middle2.0 mi · 537
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Star ElementaryHow large is Prairie Star Elementary?
Prairie Star Elementary enrolls approximately 371 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Prairie Star Elementary serve?
Prairie Star Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Prairie Star Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Prairie Star Elementary is approximately 13.1:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Prairie Star Elementary?
At Prairie Star Elementary, the student body is approximately 75% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 11% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Prairie Star Elementary public or private?
Prairie Star Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Blue Valley.
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