Public school / Primary
Prairie Park Elem
Lawrence, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 200840000793
- District
- Lawrence
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Prairie Park Elem is a public primary school in Lawrence, Kansas, run by Lawrence. It enrols 376 students — the 54577th largest of 1,365 public schools in Kansas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
376
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
15.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
55.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lawrence
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lawrence Free State High1,777 students
- 2Lawrence High1,589 students
- 3Lawrence Virtual School766 students
- 4Lawrence Southwest Middle School641 students
- 5Lawrence West Middle School609 students
- 6Billy Mills Middle School516 students
- 7Langston Hughes Elem476 students
- 8Sunflower Elementary468 students
- Enrollment+17.5%
- Teachers+13.6%
- Students per teacher+9.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+14.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory