Public school / Primary
Valley Park Elementary
Overland Park, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 201200001645
- District
- Blue Valley
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Valley Park Elementary is a public primary school in Overland Park, Kansas, run by Blue Valley. It enrols 650 students — the 22652nd 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
650
Teachers
45.0
Students per teacher
14.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
17.1%
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 Blue Valley
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.
- 1Blue Valley West High1,514 students
- 2Blue Valley North High1,414 students
- 3Blue Valley High1,412 students
- 4Blue Valley Northwest High1,344 students
- 5Blue Valley Southwest High School1,014 students
- 6Aubry Bend Middle School819 students
- 7Valley Park Elementary650 students
- 8Wolf Springs Elementary School632 students
- Enrollment+103.1%
- Teachers+104.5%
- Students per teacher+5.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−65.0%
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