Valley Park Elementary

Valley Park Elementary, a well-populated elementary-level community in Overland Park, Kansas, part of Blue Valley, instructs 549 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 75% above the state mean of about 313.

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

In terms of who attends, Valley Park Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Valley Park Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Valley Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.7%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Johnson County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Valley Park Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Blue Valley North High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Valley Park Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 520 students in 2018 compared to 549 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 21% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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