Summary
Countryside Elementary is a pre-K–5 school in Olathe serving 349 students. Its 2025–2026 results were mixed: math was slightly above the state, while English language arts (ELA) and science were below. The main concern is that Countryside scored below the average of the 10 nearby schools in all three subjects, with its largest local gap in science.
Math is the school’s strongest subject compared with the state: 44% of students were proficient, versus 41% statewide, although the nearby-school average was 54%. ELA proficiency was 44%, 2 percentage points below the state and 11 points below the nearby average of 55%; science was 34%, 4 points below the state and 13 points below the nearby average of 47%. All three subjects were also below the Olathe district, by 15 points in ELA, 14 in math, and 12 in science. Among Countryside and the 10 nearby schools, it ranked eighth in ELA, seventh in math, and eighth in science. Results also vary by grade: third-grade math was 31%, below the state’s 43%, while fifth-grade math was 54%, above the state’s 45%.
Results over time are uneven: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 9 points, while math fell 3 points and science fell 9 points; math and science moved from above the state to below it. SchoolDigger ranks Countryside at the 37th percentile statewide, 416th of 657, with 2 stars. Its percentile has been fairly steady in recent years, at 39, 38, and 37, though seven of the 10 nearby schools rank higher. The school’s student–teacher ratio is relatively low at 11.7, third-lowest among the 11 schools, while its free/reduced-lunch rate is relatively high at 60%, third-highest. SchoolDigger’s ranking suggests the school serves English learners particularly well compared with schools statewide: they rank at the 80th percentile, versus 37th overall. Its special education ranking has weakened, falling from the 65th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 40th in 2025–2026.
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