Shawanoe Elem

Shawanoe Elem is a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Shawnee, Kansas, one of the schools within Shawnee Mission Pub Sch. The school enrolls 530 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 69% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Shawanoe Elem reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Johnson County's rate of about 27%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shawanoe Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate 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%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Shawanoe Elem is one.

Trailridge Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shawanoe Elem at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shawanoe Elem has expanded 4%, going from 512 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 53% to 62%.

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