Timber Creek Elementary School

Timber Creek Elementary School is a sprawling K-5 school in Overland Park, Kansas, run under Blue Valley. The school caters to 583 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 86% bigger than the state mean of about 313.

Blue Valley runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 22,491 students. Timber Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Timber Creek Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Timber Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Timber Creek Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.6%; Timber Creek Elementary School posts 80.0%, +19.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Johnson County put median household income runs about $109,208, 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 Timber Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cedar Hills Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Timber Creek Elementary School at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 60.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 658 students in 2018 compared to 583 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 84% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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