Rhein Benninghoven Elem

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Shawnee, Kansas, Rhein Benninghoven Elem caters to 423 students from grades pre-K through 6, overseen by Shawnee Mission Pub Sch. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Rhein Benninghoven Elem sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Rhein Benninghoven Elem is one of 45 schools operated by Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, a district that caters to 26,330 students overall.

Demographically, Rhein Benninghoven Elem shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Rhein Benninghoven Elem reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Rhein Benninghoven Elem higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rhein Benninghoven Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of +13.7 points.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Johnson County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), Rhein Benninghoven Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shawnee Mission Northwest High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rhein Benninghoven Elem. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rhein Benninghoven Elem at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

Rhein Benninghoven Elem operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rhein Benninghoven Elem has ticked down 19%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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