Schools · Overland Park
Overland Park, KS schools
Overland Park’s public schools score well above Kansas’s averages: 46% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 90% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend one of 28 schools through grade 6, then one of 9 middle schools and one of 8 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
A
Overland Park’s School Grade: A
The public schools Overland Park’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 92% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
ATest scoresB-Graduation
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 92%
Lower resultsHigher results
Kansas towns with similar household incomes (474)Better than 90%
High confidence. Built on 23,394 tested students and a graduating class of 2,010; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Kansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Kansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Overland Park kids go to school
Grades 7–8
9 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School DistrictGrades 9–12
8 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School DistrictBased on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well above the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–6, Blue Valley Unified School District 229)57%
State average 35.5%
Reading (grades 7–12, Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified)46%
State average 35.5%
Math (grades PK–6, Blue Valley Unified School District 229)47%
State average 27.9%
Math (grades 7–12, Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified)38%
State average 27.9%
Graduation · class of 2020
90% graduate on time
Graduation rate
90%
KS: 88%
Graduating class
2,010
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Overland Park
Blue Valley Unified School District 229Grades PK–12 · 37 schools · 22,225 students
$13,588 per studentKS $14,966A+Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 45 schools · 26,330 students
$13,332 per studentKS $14,966A-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 62 schools in Overland Park
Showing 1–30 of 62 schools
Stanley ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 610 students
A-PublicCedar Hills ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 587 students
A+PublicTimber Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 583 students
A+PublicHarmony ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 562 students
A+PublicValley Park ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 549 students
APublicBrookridge ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 548 students
BPublicWolf Springs Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 541 students
APublicOverland Trail ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 531 students
APublicApache ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 526 students
B-PublicOak Hill ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 491 students
A+PublicOak Park-Carpenter ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–6 · 480 students
A+PublicSunrise Point ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 476 students
APublicBlue River ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 472 students
APublicLakewood ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 456 students
A+PublicIndian Valley ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 431 students
APublicTrailwood ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 429 students
A+PublicJohn Diemer ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 427 students
APublicHeartland ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 412 students
A+PublicSunset Ridge ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 396 students
A+PublicOverland Park ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 391 students
B-PublicPawnee ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 374 students
BPublicComanche ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 369 students
B-PublicBentwood ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 366 students
A+PublicCottonwood Point ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 352 students
A+PublicMorse ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 338 students
A+PublicSanta Fe Trail ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 310 students
A-PublicPleasant Ridge ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 304 students
APublicEast Antioch ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 282 students
BPublicTomahawk ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 277 students
B+PublicAspen Grove ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 163 students
PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.