30 public K-12 schools in Overland Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Overland Park has more public-school enrollment than 92% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Overland Park sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
Overland Park's list includes 13 elementary, 7 middle, and 5 high-school campuses, plus 5 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Overland Park's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 83rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 40th percentile. The 43-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Overland Park school enrollment ranges from 302 students (lowest) to 1,534 students (highest), a spread of 1,232 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Overland Park is typically wider than the Overland Park-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Pleasant Ridge Elem | 60 |
| 2. | Lakewood Middle | 59 |
| 3. | Cottonwood Point Elementary | 58 |
| 4. | Pleasant Ridge Middle | 57 |
| 5. | Oxford Middle | 56 |
| 6. | Blue Valley Southwest High School | 55 |
| 7. | Blue Valley Middle | 55 |
| 8. | Overland Trail Middle | 55 |
| 9. | Harmony Middle | 55 |
| 10. | Blue River Elementary | 54 |
| 11. | Morse Elementary | 54 |
| 12. | Bentwood Elem | 52 |
| 13. | Blue Valley West High | 51 |
| 14. | Aubry Bend Middle School | 51 |
| 15. | Sunset Ridge Elementary | 51 |
| 16. | Blue Valley North High | 50 |
| 17. | Blue Valley Northwest High | 49 |
| 18. | Heartland Elementary | 49 |
| 19. | Harmony Elementary | 46 |
| 20. | Wolf Springs Elementary School | 46 |
| 21. | Lakewood Elementary | 46 |
| 22. | Oak Hill Elementary | 45 |
| 23. | Sunrise Point Elementary | 45 |
| 24. | Indian Valley Elementary | 45 |
| 25. | Timber Creek Elementary School | 44 |
| 26. | Valley Park Elementary | 44 |
| 27. | Cedar Hills Elementary | 43 |
| 28. | Overland Trail Elementary | 43 |
| 29. | Stanley Elementary | 40 |
| 30. | Blue Valley Virtual Program | - |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Pleasant Ridge Elem has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Overland Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Overland Park has 30 public schools with a total enrollment of 18,421 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
