Enrollment
240
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAWRENCE·NCES 200840001374
Woodlawn Elem
508 Elm St, Lawrence, KS 66044 · (785) 832-5920 · Douglas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL240 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Kansas public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
125 students
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
43.2%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
35.2%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 | 43.2% | 35.2% |
| 2023-24 | 21.5% | 20.7% |
% 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
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.3%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Woodlawn Elem
Woodlawn Elem's state test result (31.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodlawn Elem this school | 240 | 52.1% | 31.4% |
| McCollom Elem Wichita | 288 | 54.9% | 36.3% |
| West Elem Valley Center | 264 | 53.4% | 48.2% |
| Prairie Park Elem Lawrence | 354 | 51.7% | 34.6% |
| Gardner Elem Gardner | 304 | 46.7% | 55.9% |
| Abilene Elem Valley Center | 254 | 50.0% | 72.9% |
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 Woodlawn Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Douglas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #479 of 625 | #14 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #405 of 625 | #12 of 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #405 of 625 | #13 of 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 240 | #479 of 714 | #15 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #127 of 539 | #3 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #197 of 540 | #8 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.1% | #353 of 658 | #5 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.1% | #63 of 151 | #6 of 9 |
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
240
+36 (+18%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 170
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 240 | 19.8 | 12.1:1 | 52% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 238 | 18.7 | 12.8:1 | 60% (142) |
| 2022-23 | 211 | 14.8 | 14.3:1 | 52% (110) |
| 2020-21 | 204 | 15 | 13.6:1 | 43% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 214 | 18.9 | 11.3:1 | 50% (106) |
| 2015-16 | 229 | 18 | 12.7:1 | 51% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 242 | 19 | 12.7:1 | 60% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 168 | 14 | 12.0:1 | 68% (115) |
| 1990-91 | 170 | 11 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodlawn Elem.
Since 2017-18: students up 12% (214 to 240); teachers up 4% (18.9 to 19.8).
About Woodlawn Elem
Woodlawn Elem is a small elementary school in Lawrence, Kansas. Enrollment totals 240 students across kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 313 students for elementary schools in Kansas.
Lawrence has 10,380 students in 18 schools, and Woodlawn Elem is one of those schools.
White students are 63% of those enrolled at Woodlawn Elem. The remaining shares are 18% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 2% Native American. Census estimates put the White share of Douglas County's population at about 78%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 56%.
The school has 19.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.1 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Kansas is 13.2:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 52% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Douglas County is 40%.
Among Kansas public elementary schools, Woodlawn Elem outscored 12%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Woodlawn Elem scores 31.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 37.3%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Douglas County show that the median household earns about $69,746 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Douglas County, 30 public schools serve about 13,766 students.
New York Elem is about 0.7 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Woodlawn Elem, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 38.5%; Woodlawn Elem's is 31.4%, ranking 6th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 240, up from 204 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 13.6:1 to 12.1:1.
The Woodlawn Elem discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Douglas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
120,302
Census ACS
Median income
$69,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
13,766 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other schools in Lawrence
- Lawrence Free State HighHigh · 1,774 students
- Lawrence HighHigh · 1,454 students
- Lawrence West Middle SchoolMiddle · 648 students
- Lawrence Southwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Langston Hughes ElemElementary · 560 students
- Lawrence Virtual SchoolCombined · 543 students
Other Woodlawn Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Woodlawn Elementary. Woodlawn Elem is the 11th largest of the 13.
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEBRING, FL · 834 students
- Woodlawn ElementaryWoodlawn, TN · 708 students
- Woodlawn ElementaryBaton Rouge, LA · 658 students
- Woodlawn Elementary SchoolDanville, KY · 657 students
- Woodlawn Elementary SchoolWest Monroe, LA · 508 students
Nearby schools
- New York Elem0.7 mi · 415
- Lawrence Liberty Memorial Central Mid School1.3 mi · 386
- Lawrence Virtual School1.6 mi · 543
- Hillcrest Elem1.8 mi · 393
- Cordley Elem1.8 mi · 348
- Lawrence High2.1 mi · 1,454
Frequently asked questions
About Woodlawn ElemHow many students attend Woodlawn Elem?
Woodlawn Elem enrolls approximately 240 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Woodlawn Elem serve?
Woodlawn Elem serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woodlawn Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woodlawn Elem is approximately 12.1:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Woodlawn Elem?
Student demographics at Woodlawn Elem are roughly 63% White, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 18% Two or more.
What district is Woodlawn Elem in?
Woodlawn Elem is part of Lawrence.
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