Elementary Schools in Bonner Springs

The three elementary schools in Delaware Ridge, Bonner Springs and Edwardsville serve 1,060 students in PK–5 or K–5. Their strongest area-wide subject is science, with an average proficiency of 42% versus 38% statewide; ELA is about level with the state, while math averages 34% versus 41%. The most important shared concern is math, where the group average is 7 percentage points below the state, largely reflecting Delaware Ridge’s lower result.

Bonner Springs leads the latest schoolwide results in all three subjects: 52% in ELA, 41% in math and 50% in science. It is 6 points above the state in ELA and 12 above in science, while its math result is essentially at the state level. Edwardsville generally places in the middle, at 47% in ELA and 40% in science, both above the state, and 38% in math, 3 points below. Delaware Ridge is the clearest low result in math: 23%, or 18 points below the state and 17 below the average of the other two schools. Grade-level results add nuance: Bonner Springs and Edwardsville are above the state in fourth-grade ELA and math, while Delaware Ridge is below; all three are below the state in third- and fifth-grade ELA and math.

Across the two years of schoolwide scores, the group average fell in every subject, and its position relative to the state worsened by 4 points in ELA, 5 in math and 3 in science. Bonner Springs’ science score dropped 13 points but remained above the state; its math score was the only school-subject result to increase, rising 1 point. SchoolDigger gives Bonner Springs and Edwardsville two stars and Delaware Ridge one; reported rank percentiles also fell for Edwardsville and Delaware Ridge between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, while Bonner Springs rose from 37 to 47. Student–teacher ratios are fairly close, from 12.1:1 at Edwardsville to 13.3:1 at Delaware Ridge, and reported free/reduced-lunch rates range from 57% to 71%; these contextual figures do not explain score differences.