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Enrollment
560
Elementary
DISTRICT 455 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TURNER-KANSAS CITY·NCES 201236000022
Turner Elem
1800 South 55th, Kansas City, KS 66106 · (913) 288-3400 · Wyandotte County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL560 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 42% of Kansas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
452 students
DISTRICT 81% · STATE 51%
Community
5
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 | 80 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
46.9%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
38.1%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 | 46.9% | 38.1% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 30.9% |
% 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
33.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.5%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Turner Elem
Turner Elem's state test result (33.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turner Elem this school | 560 | 80.7% | 33.8% |
| Oak Grove Elem Kansas City | 532 | 79.9% | 36.2% |
| Shawanoe Elem Shawnee | 530 | 86.4% | 21.3% |
| Apache Elem Overland Park | 526 | 76.8% | 28.4% |
| Woodman Elem Wichita | 612 | 87.4% | 19.6% |
| Comanche Elem Overland Park | 369 | 77.8% | 35.3% |
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 Turner Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Wyandotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #453 of 625 | #9 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #365 of 625 | #8 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #357 of 625 | #7 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 560 | #40 of 714 | #5 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #341 of 539 | #19 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #98 of 540 | #12 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.7% | #108 of 658 | #25 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.1% | #228 of 377 | #21 of 30 |
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
560
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
+150% since 1990-91, when it was 224
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 560 | 39.9 | 14.0:1 | 81% (452) |
| 2023-24 | 570 | 38.9 | 14.7:1 | 85% (485) |
| 2022-23 | 565 | 39.4 | 14.3:1 | 79% (445) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 73% (415) |
| 2017-18 | 630 | 38.6 | 16.3:1 | 84% (529) |
| 2015-16 | 665 | 35 | 19.0:1 | 80% (531) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 30 | 16.5:1 | 78% (385) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 20 | 17.3:1 | 44% (152) |
| 1990-91 | 224 | 13 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Turner Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (630 to 560); teachers up 3% (38.6 to 39.9).
About Turner Elem
Turner Elem is a high-enrollment elementary school found in Kansas City, Kansas. Students in pre-K through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 560 students. The average among elementary schools in Kansas is roughly 313 students; this school is 79% above that.
Turner Elem is one school in an 8-school district, Turner-Kansas City, which enrolls 3,865 students.
Turner Elem is 53% Hispanic by enrollment. Other students are 23% White, 11% Black, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. By comparison, Wyandotte County residents are about 34% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Turner Elem is 39.9 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 14.0:1. That is higher than the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas. The school counts 452 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 81%.
allk12 grades Turner Elem a C+. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Turner Elem's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (33.8%) and its predicted rate (23.5%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Wyandotte County, the median household income is $63,631, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Turner Elem is one of 62 public schools in the county.
Turner Middle School is located about 0.5 miles from Turner Elem. The five-mile area around Turner Elem holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 29.5%, lower than Turner Elem's 33.8%.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
Turner Elem had 566 students in 2020-21 and 560 in 2024-25, nearly the same. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.6:1 to 14.0:1.
Community posts for Turner Elem can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Wyandotte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
167,654
Census ACS
Median income
$63,631
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
62
30,713 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Turner-Kansas City
- Turner HighHigh · 1,147 students
- Turner Middle SchoolMiddle · 585 students
- Oak Grove ElemElementary · 532 students
- Midland TrailElementary · 495 students
- Turner Sixth Grade AcademyMiddle · 299 students
- Junction ElementaryElementary · 234 students
Other schools in Kansas City
- Wyandotte HighHigh · 1,903 students
- Silver City ElemElementary · 1,495 students
- J C Harmon HighHigh · 1,285 students
- Washington HighHigh · 1,180 students
- Turner HighHigh · 1,147 students
- Sumner Academy of Arts & ScienceHigh · 1,045 students
Other Turner Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 9 states are named Turner Elementary. Turner Elem is the 2nd largest of the 12.
- Turner ElementaryFresno, CA · 585 students
- Turner Elementary SchoolPASADENA, TX · 526 students
- Turner Elementary SchoolWILLIS, TX · 463 students
- Turner Elementary SchoolWashington, DC · 461 students
- Turner ElementaryAntioch, CA · 436 students
Nearby schools
- Turner Middle School0.5 mi · 585
- Turner High0.6 mi · 1,147
- Oak Grove Elem0.9 mi · 532
- Midland Trail1.7 mi · 495
- Junction Elementary1.9 mi · 234
- New Stanley Elem2.0 mi · 251
Frequently asked questions
About Turner ElemHow many students attend Turner Elem?
Turner Elem enrolls approximately 560 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Turner Elem serve?
Turner Elem serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Turner Elem have?
Turner Elem employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Turner Elem?
Student demographics at Turner Elem are roughly 23% White, 53% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Turner Elem public or private?
Turner Elem is a public K-12 school, overseen by Turner-Kansas City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.