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Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE VALLEY·NCES 201200001400
Sunset Ridge Elementary
14901 England St., Overland Park, KS 66221 · (913) 239-7400 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
33 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
72.7%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
63.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 | 72.7% | 63.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.7% | 64.9% |
% 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
68.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Sunset Ridge Elementary
Sunset Ridge Elementary's state test result (68.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset Ridge Elementary this school | 396 | 8.3% | 68.0% |
| Liberty View Elementary Olathe | 430 | 13.5% | 55.6% |
| Wolf Springs Elementary School Overland Park | 541 | 6.5% | 63.1% |
| Harmony Elementary Overland Park | 562 | 10.7% | 70.6% |
| Sunrise Point Elementary Overland Park | 476 | 5.9% | 67.6% |
| Timber Creek Elementary School Overland Park | 583 | 3.4% | 80.0% |
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 Sunset Ridge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #37 of 625 | #24 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #85 of 625 | #48 of 111 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.7% | #49 of 625 | #37 of 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #195 of 714 | #51 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #182 of 539 | #30 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.3% | #223 of 540 | #52 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.3% | #641 of 658 | #96 of 111 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #164 of 377 | #33 of 76 |
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
396
-23 (-5%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 567
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 396 | 31.2 | 12.7:1 | 8% (33) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 33.2 | 13.0:1 | 8% (36) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 30.7 | 13.4:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2020-21 | 419 | 29 | 14.4:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 33.4 | 14.0:1 | 8% (38) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 6% (30) |
| 2010-11 | 568 | 33 | 17.2:1 | 5% (31) |
| 2000-01 | 567 | 35 | 16.2:1 | 0% (1) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunset Ridge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (468 to 396); teachers down 6% (33.4 to 31.2).
About Sunset Ridge Elementary
Located in Overland Park, Kansas, Sunset Ridge Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school. Enrolled students number 396 students, in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Kansas average about 313 students each.
Sunset Ridge Elementary is one of the 37 schools that make up Blue Valley (22,225 students in total).
Sunset Ridge Elementary is 66% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 19% Asian, 6% Black, 6% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Johnson County's population at about 79%. Sunset Ridge Elementary's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
At Sunset Ridge Elementary, 31.2 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 12.7:1. That matches the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas fairly closely. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 8% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Johnson County averages 27%, higher than here.
Sunset Ridge Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 68.0% and a predicted 58.2%.
Sunset Ridge Elementary is located in Johnson County, where the median household income is $109,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 58%, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. Besides Sunset Ridge Elementary, Johnson County has 167 other public schools.
The school nearest to Sunset Ridge Elementary is Harmony Elementary, at a distance of about 1.0 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Sunset Ridge Elementary is 3rd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Sunset Ridge Elementary is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
Enrollment is down 5% from 2020-21, when Sunset Ridge Elementary had 419 students, to 2024-25, when it had 396. Students per teacher fell from 14.4 in 2020-21 to 12.7 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
620,631
Census ACS
Median income
$109,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
93,598 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Blue Valley
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
- Blue Valley Southwest High SchoolHigh · 1,057 students
- Aubry Bend Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
Other schools in Overland Park
- Shawnee Mission West HighHigh · 1,599 students
- Shawnee Mission South HighHigh · 1,574 students
- Blue Valley West HighHigh · 1,534 students
- Shawnee Mission North HighHigh · 1,502 students
- Blue Valley Northwest HighHigh · 1,496 students
- Blue Valley North HighHigh · 1,376 students
Other Sunset Ridge Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Sunset Ridge Elementary. Sunset Ridge Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Sunset Ridge Elementary SchoolGLENDALE, AZ · 611 students
- Sunset Ridge ElementaryPacifica, CA · 348 students
- Sunset Ridge ElementaryMiddleton, WI · 309 students
- Sunset Ridge Elementary SchoolNorthfield, IL · 274 students
Nearby schools
- Harmony Elementary1.0 mi · 562
- Harmony Middle1.0 mi · 536
- Blue Valley Virtual Program1.3 mi · 302
- Blue Valley West High1.5 mi · 1,534
- Lakewood Middle1.7 mi · 537
- Morse Elementary1.8 mi · 338
Frequently asked questions
About Sunset Ridge ElementaryHow large is Sunset Ridge Elementary?
Sunset Ridge Elementary enrolls approximately 396 students in grades PK-05.
Is Sunset Ridge Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunset Ridge Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sunset Ridge Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sunset Ridge Elementary is approximately 12.7:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sunset Ridge Elementary?
At Sunset Ridge Elementary, the student body is approximately 66% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 19% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunset Ridge Elementary?
Sunset Ridge Elementary is overseen by Blue Valley in Johnson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.