Best Elementary Schools in Kansas for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in Kansas!

Every year, the Kansas State Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

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 (Special Education vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 306)	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	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
200336001913	1	Wheatland Elementary	Public	K-5	15200 E. 21st Street	Wichita	67230	Sedgwick County	Andover	No	No	No	No	(316) 218-4820	433	26	16.9	8.5%	324 (74.8%)	5 (1.2%)	23 (5.3%)	43 (9.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	38 (8.8%)	$6,392			$279			$6,113	99.7%	98.6%	1.05%
201164001656	2	Christa McAuliffe Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	15600 W 83rd St	Lenexa	66219	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-3500	407	30	13.4	19.9%	311 (76.4%)	26 (6.4%)	29 (7.1%)	14 (3.4%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	25 (6.1%)	$9,744			$372			$9,371	99.3%	93.3%	6.08%
201164001552	3	Roesland Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	4900 Parish Dr	Roeland Park	66205	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-4700	351	24	14.8	47.6%	192 (54.7%)	32 (9.1%)	94 (26.8%)	9 (2.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	24 (6.8%)	$10,207			$682			$9,525	99.0%	90.7%	8.36%
201200001400	4	Sunset Ridge Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	14901 England St.	Overland Park	66221	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-7400	433	33	13	8.3%	280 (64.7%)	18 (4.2%)	28 (6.5%)	91 (21.0%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	15 (3.5%)	$10,548			$446			$10,103	98.7%	92.6%	6.04%
201164001539	5	Ray Marsh Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	5642 Rosehill Rd	Shawnee	66216	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-3400	478	27	17.5	32.2%	351 (73.4%)	31 (6.5%)	58 (12.1%)	12 (2.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (5.4%)	$9,125			$376			$8,749	98.4%	92.8%	5.56%
200702001680	6	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	98.0%	97.2%	0.80%
201200001593	7	Morse Elementary	Public	K-5	15201 Monrovia St.	Overland Park	66221	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-6800	356	28	12.6	11.0%	270 (75.8%)	12 (3.4%)	11 (3.1%)	40 (11.2%)	2 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	21 (5.9%)	$10,824			$134			$10,690	97.7%	89.1%	8.59%
201014001759	8	Manchester Park Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	9810 Prairie Creek Rd	Lenexa	66220	Johnson County	Olathe	No	No	No	No	(913) 780-7540	613	35	17.7	7.3%	483 (78.8%)	33 (5.4%)	45 (7.3%)	30 (4.9%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (3.3%)	$8,659			$508			$8,151	97.4%	93.9%	3.51%
201014001484	9	Regency Place Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	13250 S Greenwood	Olathe	66062	Johnson County	Olathe	No	No	No	No	(913) 780-7620	442	29	15.1	16.7%	280 (63.3%)	21 (4.8%)	54 (12.2%)	66 (14.9%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (4.5%)	$10,849			$415			$10,433	97.1%	99.1%	2.02%
200666001028	10	Jefferson Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	2716 24th	Great Bend	67530	Barton County	Great Bend	No	No	No	Yes	(620) 793-1502	282	19	14.6	51.4%	207 (73.4%)	4 (1.4%)	56 (19.9%)	1 (0.4%)	1 (0.4%)	1 (0.4%)	12 (4.3%)	$11,290			$1,473			$9,817	96.7%	76.0%	20.77%

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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.