Best Elementary Schools in Kansas

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Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Kansas test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the KAP test scores by the Kansas State Department of Education. The most recent update was on Tuesday, October 8, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (2024 vs 2023)
ID	Rank (of 653)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Average Standard Score (2024)	Average Standard Score (2023)	Rank (2023)	Rank Change from 2023	SchoolDigger Rating (2024)
201200001684	11	Cottonwood Point Elementary	Public	K-5	10521 W. 129th St.	Overland Park	66213	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-6100	370	28	13.3	9.5%	262 (70.8%)	7 (1.9%)	26 (7.0%)	51 (13.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (6.5%)	$10,927			$108			$10,820	95	97.6	4	7
201164001534	12	Highlands Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	6200 Roe Ave	Mission	66205	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-3300	366	27	13.8	9.3%	288 (78.7%)	10 (2.7%)	31 (8.5%)	9 (2.5%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (1.1%)	24 (6.6%)	$11,599			$1,015			$10,584	94.9	95.2	14	2
201203000808	13	Sterling Grade School	Public	PK, KG-6	218 S 5th	Sterling	67579	Rice County	Sterling	No	No	No	Yes	(620) 278-3112	271	19	14.1	40.2%	254 (93.7%)	6 (2.2%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	9 (3.3%)	$9,166			$1,761			$7,404	94.4	87.6	59	46
201164001523	14	Briarwood Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	5300 W. 86th St	Prairie Village	66207	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-2200	665	39	17.2	16.4%	541 (81.4%)	29 (4.4%)	57 (8.6%)	6 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)	2 (0.3%)	29 (4.4%)	$8,926			$302			$8,625	94.4	93	22	8
201200001473	15	Lakewood Elementary	Public	K-5	14600 Lamar Ave.	Overland Park	66223	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-6500	493	35	14	12.6%	241 (48.9%)	39 (7.9%)	26 (5.3%)	150 (30.4%)	4 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)	33 (6.7%)	$9,018			$460			$8,558	94.4	91.5	28	13
200840001730	16	Langston Hughes Elementary	Public	K-5	1101 George Williams Way	Lawrence	66049	Douglas County	Lawrence	No	No	No	No	(785) 832-5890	544	30	18.1	14.2%	407 (74.8%)	10 (1.8%)	37 (6.8%)	33 (6.1%)	4 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	53 (9.7%)	$8,150			$573			$7,577	94.3	91.1	34	18
201164001525	17	Brookwood Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	3411 W. 103rd Street	Leawood	66206	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-2500	462	31	15	9.1%	410 (88.7%)	3 (0.6%)	20 (4.3%)	3 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (5.6%)	$8,517			$310			$8,207	93.5	96.7	7	10
200702001680	18	Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy Elementary	Public	K-5	1401 Hall	Hays	67601	Ellis County	Hays	No	No	No	Yes	(785) 623-2510	396	26	15.2	41.2%	309 (78.0%)	9 (2.3%)	41 (10.4%)	19 (4.8%)	1 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	17 (4.3%)	$12,339			$1,699			$10,640	93.3	94.2	19	1
201170000784	19	Silver Lake Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	200 Rice Rd	Silver Lake	66539	Shawnee County	Silver Lake	No	No	No	Yes	(785) 582-4081	355	28	12.5	20.0%	335 (94.4%)	3 (0.8%)	12 (3.4%)	1 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (1.1%)	$9,985			$2,279			$7,706	93.2	90.3	40	21
200447001801	20	Lakeside Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	913 7th St	Cawker City	67430	Mitchell County	Waconda	No	No	No	Yes	(785) 781-4911	142	11	12.5	54.9%	135 (95.1%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (2.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (2.8%)	$14,713			$1,286			$13,427	93.1	71.1	153	133

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on KAP English Language Arts, KAP Mathematics, KAP Science test scores released by the Kansas State Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on October 8, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Kansas State Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Kansas State Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kansas State Department of Education.