Silver Lake Elem

Silver Lake Elem is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Silver Lake, Kansas, one of the schools within Silver Lake, with 355 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

Silver Lake Elem is one of 2 schools operated by Silver Lake, a district that serves 710 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Silver Lake Elem logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Shawnee County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Silver Lake Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 24% of students at Silver Lake Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Shawnee County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Silver Lake Elem 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 50.8%; this one delivers 72.0%, a residual of +21.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Shawnee County shows median household income runs about $67,104, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Silver Lake Elem is one of 54 public schools in Shawnee County (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students).

Silver Lake Jr-Sr High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Silver Lake Elem comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Silver Lake Elem has edged down 15%, going from 419 students in 2018 to 355 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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