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Enrollment
438
Middle
DISTRICT 570 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE VALLEY·NCES 201200000994
Prairie Star Middle
14201 Mission Road, Leawood, KS 66224 · (913) 239-5600 · Johnson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL438 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Kansas public middle schools
- A+Test 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
38 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 153 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 139 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 146 | 33% |
Student demographics
42%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
76.4%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
74.4%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 | 76.4% | 74.4% |
| 2023-24 | 55.1% | 63.0% |
% 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
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Middle
Prairie Star Middle's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Star Middle this school | 438 | 8.7% | 64.4% |
| Aubry Bend Middle School Overland Park | 792 | 5.6% | 64.0% |
| Harmony Middle Overland Park | 536 | 11.9% | 57.2% |
| California Trail Middle School Olathe | 584 | 13.5% | 50.6% |
| Blue Valley Middle Overland Park | 593 | 15.5% | 54.3% |
| Oxford Middle Overland Park | 620 | 20.2% | 59.5% |
Matched among Kansas middle 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 Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #1 of 192 | #1 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #2 of 192 | #2 of 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.4% | #3 of 192 | #3 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 438 | #100 of 225 | #29 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #38 of 161 | #6 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.0% | #100 of 161 | #21 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.7% | #191 of 195 | #28 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #22 of 98 | #5 of 21 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
438
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
-28% since 2000-01, when it was 611
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 438 | 36.6 | 12.0:1 | 9% (38) |
| 2023-24 | 439 | 35.5 | 12.4:1 | 6% (27) |
| 2022-23 | 443 | 37.9 | 11.7:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2020-21 | 445 | 31 | 14.3:1 | 4% (16) |
| 2017-18 | 542 | 38.8 | 14.0:1 | 4% (20) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 40 | 14.2:1 | 3% (19) |
| 2010-11 | 716 | 45 | 15.9:1 | 6% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 611 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 3% (19) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie Star Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (542 to 438); teachers down 6% (38.8 to 36.6).
About Prairie Star Middle
This page covers Prairie Star Middle, a mid-sized middle school in Leawood, Kansas. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 438 students on the rolls.
Blue Valley enrolls 22,225 students in 37 schools, including Prairie Star Middle.
The share of White students at Prairie Star Middle is 74%, a majority. Other students are 15% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 42%.
There are 36.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.0:1. It is about the same as the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. Of all students at Prairie Star Middle, 9% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Johnson County is 27%.
Prairie Star Middle earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of Kansas public middle schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 58.1% at Prairie Star Middle; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 64.4%.
American Community Survey estimates for Johnson County show that the median household earns about $109,208 a year, about 58% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. Johnson County has 168 public schools with about 93,598 students, including Prairie Star Middle.
Prairie Star Elementary is the nearest public school to Prairie Star Middle, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Prairie Star Middle, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Prairie Star Middle is behind the 65.1% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
Prairie Star Middle 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.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (445) to 2024-25 (438). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 12.0:1, from 14.3:1.
The discussion board for Prairie Star Middle is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- Mission Trail ElementaryElementary · 384 students
- Prairie Star ElementaryElementary · 371 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Star Elementary0.2 mi · 371
- Mission Trail Elementary1.1 mi · 384
- Overland Trail Middle1.7 mi · 540
- Lakewood Elementary1.8 mi · 456
- Overland Trail Elementary1.8 mi · 531
- Lakewood Middle1.9 mi · 537
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie Star MiddleHow large is Prairie Star Middle?
Prairie Star Middle enrolls approximately 438 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Prairie Star Middle serve?
Prairie Star Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Prairie Star Middle?
Approximately 12.0:1 students per teacher at Prairie Star Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Prairie Star Middle?
At Prairie Star Middle, the student body is approximately 74% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Prairie Star Middle in?
Prairie Star Middle is part of Blue Valley.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.