Stilwell Elementary

Stilwell Elementary, a cozy K-5 school in Stilwell, Kansas, operated by Blue Valley, serves 266 students, covering grades K through 5.

Stilwell Elementary is one of 40 schools operated by Blue Valley, a district that enrolls 22,491 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Stilwell Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stilwell Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.3%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Johnson County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Stilwell Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Wolf Springs Elementary School, roughly 3.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stilwell Elementary. On composite proficiency, Stilwell Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 15%: 232 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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