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 10, 2023.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2023)
ID	Rank (of 296)	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)
201164001656	1	Christa McAuliffe Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	15600 W 83rd St	Shawnee Mission	66219	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-3500	419	32	12.9	16.0%	321 (76.6%)	27 (6.4%)	25 (6.0%)	19 (4.5%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	25 (6.0%)	$9,744			$372			$9,371	99.7%	89.4%	10.27%
201200001677	2	Mission Trail Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	13200 Mission Road	Leawood	66209	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-6700	388	31	12.4	9.5%	307 (79.1%)	17 (4.4%)	19 (4.9%)	13 (3.4%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	30 (7.7%)	$11,215			$134			$11,081	99.3%	99.2%	0.08%
201200001684	3	Cottonwood Point Elementary	Public	K-5	10521 W. 129th St.	Overland Park	66213	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-6100	344	30	11.5	4.7%	247 (71.8%)	5 (1.5%)	27 (7.8%)	48 (14.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	17 (4.9%)	$10,927			$108			$10,820	99.0%	99.4%	0.41%
201014001759	4	Manchester Park Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	9810 Prairie Creek Rd	Lenexa	66220	Johnson County	Olathe	No	No	No	No	(913) 780-7540	601	36	16.6	5.7%	489 (81.4%)	25 (4.2%)	31 (5.2%)	29 (4.8%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	25 (4.2%)	$8,659			$508			$8,151	98.6%	95.0%	3.65%
201200001400	5	Sunset Ridge Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	14901 England St.	Overland Park	66221	Johnson County	Blue Valley	No	No	No	No	(913) 239-7400	407	30	13.4	3.2%	275 (67.6%)	20 (4.9%)	26 (6.4%)	70 (17.2%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	15 (3.7%)	$10,548			$446			$10,103	98.3%	90.3%	8.01%
200654002020	6	Apollo Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-4	16158 W Apollo	Goddard	67052	Sedgwick County	Goddard	No	No	No	No	(316) 794-4090	531	33	16.1	17.9%	413 (77.8%)	15 (2.8%)	61 (11.5%)	10 (1.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	32 (6.0%)	$9,050			$369			$8,681	98.0%	95.2%	2.82%
201299000300	7	McLean Science/Technical Magnet Elementary	Public, Magnet	PK, KG-5	2277 Marigold Lane	Wichita	67204	Sedgwick County	Wichita	No	Yes	No	No	(316) 973-8250	238	19	12.5	63.0%	117 (49.2%)	11 (4.6%)	87 (36.6%)	3 (1.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (8.4%)	$11,696			$2,969			$8,726	97.6%	74.4%	23.24%
200918001639	8	Amanda Arnold Elementary	Public	K-5	1435 Hudson	Manhattan	66503	Riley County	Manhattan-Ogden	No	No	No	No	(785) 587-2020	490	34	14.4	19.4%	321 (65.5%)	38 (7.8%)	48 (9.8%)	34 (6.9%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	47 (9.6%)	$8,942			$857			$8,085	97.3%	95.3%	1.99%
200633000047	9	Eisenhower Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	1 Eisenhower Circle; Bldg 327	Fort Leavenworth	66027	Leavenworth County	Fort Leavenworth	No	No	No	Yes	(913) 651-6663	435	35	12.6	2.8%	284 (65.3%)	27 (6.2%)	75 (17.2%)	11 (2.5%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	37 (8.5%)	$9,590			$1,652			$7,939	97.0%	97.0%	0.01%
201164001534	10	Highlands Elementary	Public	PK, KG-6	6200 Roe	Shawnee Mission	66205	Johnson County	Shawnee Mission Pub School	No	No	No	No	(913) 993-3300	370	24	15.4	13.8%	283 (76.5%)	10 (2.7%)	41 (11.1%)	5 (1.4%)	1 (0.3%)	1 (0.3%)	29 (7.8%)	$11,599			$1,015			$10,584	96.6%	97.9%	1.26%

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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 10, 2023, 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.

Educational resources:

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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. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.