Rolling Ridge Elem

As a mid-tier primary school in Olathe, Kansas, Rolling Ridge Elem instructs 366 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Olathe.

Olathe comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 28,194 students; Rolling Ridge Elem is among them.

Looking at the student body, Rolling Ridge Elem shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 36% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Rolling Ridge Elem reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Rolling Ridge Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Rolling Ridge Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.2%, the actual is 22.6%, a residual of -8.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Johnson County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Rolling Ridge Elem is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Nearest neighbor: Clearwater Creek Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rolling Ridge Elem. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rolling Ridge Elem at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 46.4%.

Rolling Ridge Elem operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 29%: 518 students in 2018 compared to 366 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 41% to 36%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 in 2025.

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