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Alumni: what's one memory from Walnut Grove Elem that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
394
Elementary
DISTRICT 350 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLATHE·NCES 201014001626
Walnut Grove Elem
11800 S Pflumm Road, Olathe, KS 66062 · (913) 780-7710 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
87 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
66.1%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
57.2%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 | 66.1% | 57.2% |
| 2023-24 | 44.5% | 42.0% |
% 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
54.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.6%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Walnut Grove Elem
Walnut Grove Elem's state test result (54.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Grove Elem this school | 394 | 22.1% | 54.9% |
| Belmont Elementary School Shawnee | 381 | 23.4% | 60.5% |
| Meadowlark Elementary Wichita | 372 | 21.8% | 61.6% |
| Black Bob Elem Olathe | 362 | 21.5% | 68.1% |
| Christa McAuliffe Elem Lenexa | 400 | 19.0% | 67.7% |
| Quail Run Elementary Lawrence | 421 | 25.2% | 60.2% |
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 Walnut Grove Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #153 of 625 | #72 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #143 of 625 | #71 of 111 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #107 of 625 | #61 of 111 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #199 of 714 | #53 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #437 of 539 | #90 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #173 of 540 | #37 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.1% | #584 of 658 | #53 of 111 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.2% | #113 of 151 | #22 of 28 |
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
394
+28 (+8%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 695
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 394 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 22% (87) |
| 2023-24 | 404 | 28.6 | 14.1:1 | 29% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 29.8 | 13.9:1 | 35% (143) |
| 2020-21 | 366 | 28 | 13.1:1 | 27% (98) |
| 2017-18 | 378 | 25.9 | 14.6:1 | 27% (101) |
| 2015-16 | 422 | N/A | N/A | 33% (138) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 22 | 17.2:1 | 26% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 423 | 30 | 14.1:1 | 3% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 695 | 37 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walnut Grove Elem.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (378 to 394); teachers unchanged (25.9 to 26).
About Walnut Grove Elem
Walnut Grove Elem runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Olathe, Kansas. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 394 students. The school is 26% above the average for elementary schools in Kansas.
Olathe enrolls 28,194 students in 52 schools, including Walnut Grove Elem.
The share of White students at Walnut Grove Elem is 62%, a majority. Smaller groups are 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Johnson County is roughly 79% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 58, compared with 70 nationally.
Walnut Grove Elem has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 15.2:1. The school's 15.2:1 compares with an average of 13.2:1 for elementary schools in Kansas. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 22%.
Walnut Grove Elem posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 54.9%, compared with a predicted 51.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Kansas schools on BeatsExpectations.
For the population of Johnson County, median household income comes to about $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Johnson County's 168 public schools enroll about 93,598 students and include Walnut Grove Elem.
Walnut Grove Elem's closest public school neighbor is Heatherstone Elem, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Walnut Grove Elem ranks 4th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Walnut Grove Elem as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose 8%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.1:1 in 2020-21, and 15.2:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Olathe
- Olathe North Sr HighHigh · 2,011 students
- Olathe Northwest High SchoolHigh · 1,958 students
- Olathe East Sr HighHigh · 1,844 students
- Olathe South Sr HighHigh · 1,778 students
- Olathe West High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Prairie Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
Other schools in Olathe
- Olathe North Sr HighHigh · 2,011 students
- Olathe Northwest High SchoolHigh · 1,958 students
- Olathe East Sr HighHigh · 1,844 students
- Olathe South Sr HighHigh · 1,778 students
- Olathe West High SchoolHigh · 1,557 students
- Prairie Trail Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
Other Walnut Grove Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 9 states are named Walnut Grove Elementary. Walnut Grove Elem is the 9th largest of the 13.
- Walnut Grove Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 819 students
- Walnut Grove ElementaryPatterson, CA · 744 students
- Walnut Grove Elementary SchoolBargersville, IN · 735 students
- Walnut Grove Elementary SchoolCovington, GA · 721 students
- Walnut Grove ElementaryVANCOUVER, WA · 681 students
Nearby schools
- Heatherstone Elem0.7 mi · 346
- Pleasant Ridge Elem0.8 mi · 304
- Olathe East Sr High1.4 mi · 1,844
- Pioneer Trail Middle School1.5 mi · 617
- Countryside Elementary1.6 mi · 349
- Regency Place Elementary1.9 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About Walnut Grove ElemWhat is the total enrollment at Walnut Grove Elem?
Walnut Grove Elem enrolls approximately 394 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Walnut Grove Elem serve?
Walnut Grove Elem serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Walnut Grove Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Walnut Grove Elem is approximately 15.2:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Walnut Grove Elem?
Student demographics at Walnut Grove Elem are roughly 62% White, 15% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Walnut Grove Elem?
Walnut Grove Elem is overseen by Olathe in Johnson County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.