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Regency Place Elementary
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% 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 20 points, placing it in Kansas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Regency Place Elementary
Located at 13250 S Greenwood, in Olathe, Kansas, Regency Place Elementary is an average-sized elementary school that caters to 435 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Olathe. Enrollment runs roughly 39% larger than the state mean of about 313.
Within Olathe, which oversees 52 schools and 28,194 students, Regency Place Elementary is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Regency Place Elementary records that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 13% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Regency Place Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 55.6%; this one delivers 75.2%, a residual of +19.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Johnson County) records that 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%. Regency Place Elementary is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).
California Trail Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Regency Place Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Regency Place Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.1%.
Regency Place Elementary operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Regency Place Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 436 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 6% to 13% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.
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