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What's something Quail Run Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAWRENCE·NCES 200840001665
Quail Run Elementary
1130 Inverness Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049 · (785) 832-5820 · Douglas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% 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
15.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
106 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 51%
Community
4
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 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
63.6%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
58.6%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 | 63.6% | 58.6% |
| 2023-24 | 59.6% | 60.6% |
% 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
60.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Quail Run Elementary
Quail Run Elementary's state test result (60.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quail Run Elementary this school | 421 | 25.2% | 60.2% |
| Oak Park-Carpenter Elementary Overland Park | 480 | 24.2% | 67.2% |
| Belmont Elementary School Shawnee | 381 | 23.4% | 60.5% |
| Meadowlark Elementary Wichita | 372 | 21.8% | 61.6% |
| Park Hill Elementary Derby | 392 | 29.1% | 53.0% |
| Christa McAuliffe Elem Lenexa | 400 | 19.0% | 67.7% |
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 Quail Run Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #110 of 625 | #2 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #130 of 625 | #2 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.6% | #127 of 625 | #2 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #157 of 714 | #6 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #451 of 539 | #11 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.7% | #267 of 540 | #10 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.2% | #571 of 658 | #15 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.0% | #309 of 377 | #4 of 6 |
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
421
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 550
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 421 | 27.3 | 15.4:1 | 25% (106) |
| 2023-24 | 416 | 27.3 | 15.2:1 | 27% (111) |
| 2022-23 | 393 | 25 | 15.7:1 | 27% (108) |
| 2020-21 | 415 | 24 | 17.3:1 | 19% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 443 | 23 | 19.3:1 | 22% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 434 | 26 | 16.7:1 | 21% (92) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 25 | 19.0:1 | 17% (83) |
| 2000-01 | 498 | 42 | 11.9:1 | 7% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 550 | 28 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quail Run Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (443 to 421); teachers up 19% (23 to 27.3).
About Quail Run Elementary
Quail Run Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Lawrence, Kansas, (ZIP code 66049). It serves 421 students in kindergarten through 5. The average among elementary schools in Kansas is roughly 313 students; this school is 35% larger than that.
Lawrence is the local district for Quail Run Elementary. It runs 18 schools with 10,380 students.
Quail Run Elementary's enrollment is 71% White. The next largest groups are 13% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 2% Asian. Quail Run Elementary has a diversity index of 48%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 15.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Kansas is 13.2:1, lower than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 25% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 15 points below the 40% average for public schools in Douglas County.
Quail Run Elementary is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 78% of Kansas public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Quail Run Elementary is 10.1 points above its prediction. Actual: 60.2%. Predicted: 50.1%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Douglas County show that median household income is about $69,746, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Quail Run Elementary is one of 30 public schools in Douglas County, which together enroll about 13,766 students.
Nearby, Lawrence Free State High is about 0.9 miles away. Quail Run Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Quail Run Elementary at 2nd of 9.
Quail Run Elementary is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Quail Run Elementary had 415 students in 2020-21 and 421 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2020-21 to 15.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
120,302
Census ACS
Median income
$69,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
13,766 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other Quail Run Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Quail Run Elementary. Quail Run Elementary is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Quail Run ElementarySan Ramon, CA · 744 students
- Quail Run Elementary SchoolWarner Robins, GA · 643 students
- Quail Run Elementary SchoolTUCSON, AZ · 539 students
- Quail Run Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 533 students
Nearby schools
- Lawrence Free State High0.9 mi · 1,774
- Langston Hughes Elem1.4 mi · 560
- Sunset Hill Elem1.7 mi · 398
- Lawrence Southwest Middle School1.8 mi · 641
- Lawrence West Middle School1.8 mi · 648
- Sunflower Elementary1.8 mi · 444
Frequently asked questions
About Quail Run ElementaryHow large is Quail Run Elementary?
Quail Run Elementary enrolls approximately 421 students in grades KG-05.
Is Quail Run Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Quail Run Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Quail Run Elementary have?
Quail Run Elementary employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Quail Run Elementary?
At Quail Run Elementary, the student body is approximately 71% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Quail Run Elementary public or private?
Quail Run Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lawrence.
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