Enrollment
106
Elementary
DISTRICT 142 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSWEGO·NCES 201035001490
Service Valley Charter Academy
21101 Wallace Road, Parsons, KS 67357 · (620) 421-3449 · Labette County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY42-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL106 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
9.9:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
67 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 11 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 8 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 13 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 13 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 14 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 13 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 11 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 12 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 11 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (11) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (11).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
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KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
40.0%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
16.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 | 40.0% | 16.0% |
| 2023-24 | 23.2% | 10.1% |
% 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
30.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Service Valley Charter Academy
Service Valley Charter Academy's state test result (30.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Valley Charter Academy this school | 106 | 63.2% | 30.1% |
| Mound Valley Elem Mound Valley | 136 | 61.0% | 45.1% |
| Williamsburg Elementary School Williamsburg | 102 | 62.7% | 36.0% |
| Riverside Intermediate Elwood | 142 | 59.2% | 44.0% |
| Almena Elem Almena | 78 | 60.3% | 35.9% |
| Puls Elem Attica | 122 | 60.7% | 26.9% |
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 Service Valley Charter Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Labette County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #486 of 625 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #571 of 625 | #9 of 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #449 of 625 | #7 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 106 | #653 of 714 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.2% | #222 of 658 | #6 of 10 |
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
106
-8 (-7%) vs 2020
+100% since 1990-91, when it was 53
Student : Teacher
9.9:1
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 | 106 | 10.7 | 9.9:1 | 63% (67) |
| 2023-24 | 119 | 9.2 | 12.9:1 | 63% (75) |
| 2022-23 | 124 | 8.7 | 14.3:1 | 56% (70) |
| 2020-21 | 114 | 8 | 14.3:1 | 65% (74) |
| 2017-18 | 137 | 8.7 | 15.8:1 | 69% (94) |
| 2015-16 | 121 | N/A | N/A | 67% (81) |
| 2010-11 | 76 | 6 | 12.7:1 | 66% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 93 | 8 | 11.6:1 | 54% (50) |
| 1990-91 | 53 | 5 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Service Valley Charter Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (137 to 106); teachers up 23% (8.7 to 10.7).
About Service Valley Charter Academy
Service Valley Charter Academy is an elementary school in Parsons, Kansas, and it is part of Oswego. The school enrolls 106 students in kindergarten through 8. That compares with an average of about 313 students for elementary schools in Kansas.
Service Valley Charter Academy is in Oswego, a district with 479 students across 3 schools.
Roughly 82% of students at Service Valley Charter Academy are White. Other groups include 12% multiracial and 4% Black. Labette County residents are about 84% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Service Valley Charter Academy scores 31%.
There are 10.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Service Valley Charter Academy, giving a ratio of 9.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Kansas is 13.2:1. A total of 67 students, or 63%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Labette County is close, at 65%.
Among Kansas public elementary schools, Service Valley Charter Academy outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Service Valley Charter Academy is 1.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (30.1% versus 31.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Kansas.
The county, Labette County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $56,325, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 18 public schools and about 3,468 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Garfield School, is about 7.5 miles. Other public schools within ten miles: at least 8. Service Valley Charter Academy is 4th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Service Valley Charter Academy is coded as Rural: Distant in federal locale data. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
A 7% decline took enrollment from 114 in 2020-21 to 106 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (9.9:1) than in 2020-21 (14.3:1).
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Labette County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
19,869
Census ACS
Median income
$56,325
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
3,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Oswego
- Oswego Junior-Senior High SchoolHigh · 195 students
- Oswego Neosho Hgts ElemElementary · 178 students
Other schools in Parsons
- Parsons Sr HighHigh · 399 students
- Meadowview ElemElementary · 367 students
- Parsons Middle SchoolMiddle · 273 students
- Lincoln SchoolElementary · 262 students
- Guthridge SchoolElementary · 203 students
- Garfield SchoolElementary · 176 students
Nearby schools
- Garfield School7.5 mi · 176
- Lincoln School8.1 mi · 262
- Parsons Middle School8.8 mi · 273
- Parsons Sr High8.9 mi · 399
- Guthridge School8.9 mi · 203
- St. Hosp. Training Center Parsons9.0 mi · 14
Frequently asked questions
About Service Valley Charter AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Service Valley Charter Academy?
Service Valley Charter Academy enrolls approximately 106 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Service Valley Charter Academy serve?
Service Valley Charter Academy serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Service Valley Charter Academy?
Approximately 9.9:1 students per teacher at Service Valley Charter Academy.
How diverse is Service Valley Charter Academy?
Service Valley Charter Academy reports a student body of 82% White, 2% Hispanic, 4% Black, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Service Valley Charter Academy?
Service Valley Charter Academy is overseen by Oswego in Labette County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.