Shawanoe Elem, Shawnee KS - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Shawanoe Elem

Shawanoe Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in Shawnee, Kansas, as part of the Shawnee Mission Public Schools district. It is a neighborhood school set in a predominantly residential suburb of the Kansas City metropolitan area, where the city’s commercial corridors host retail and logistics employers and a comprehensive plan signals active growth management. The school itself draws from a community with a high owner-occupied housing rate and housing values above the Kansas median, though rents have recently softened.

The student body at Shawanoe is diverse and reflects the demographic makeup of the surrounding area. The largest group of students is Hispanic, followed by Black, White, and students identifying with two or more races, with smaller Asian and American Indian populations. A very substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, placing the school in a high-poverty context. Because the school serves only through sixth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and data on chronic absenteeism, special education, and English learner counts were not available in this profile.

State testing results from the Kansas Assessment Program (KAP) show that proficiency rates for Shawanoe fall below the midpoint among districts in Johnson County, placing the school in the bottom quartile on an overall proficiency index that averages performance across tested subjects and grades. In math, the share of students meeting the state’s proficient or advanced benchmark was in the roughly one-quarter range across grades three through six. In English language arts, the rates were also in the roughly one-quarter range, with a slightly higher result in third grade. In science, only a small fraction of fifth graders reached proficiency. These figures represent a soft spot in the school’s academic profile, and a parent may want to speak with the school directly about how instruction is targeted, what interventions are in place, and how the school supports students who are not yet meeting benchmarks.

Because Shawanoe is an elementary-only school, it does not offer the high-school-level Signature Programs that the Shawnee Mission district provides at its Center for Academic Achievement and Career Technical Campus. Those programs, which include Biotechnology, Engineering, Medical Health Sciences, and Project Blue Eagle for law enforcement and emergency services, become available when students move on to the district’s high schools. The district has also adopted a focus on personalized learning plans for every student, a pedagogical direction that will affect the instructional approach at Shawanoe as well.

The school environment is shaped by its suburban setting. Shawnee is car-dependent, with a spread-out built environment of subdivisions and strip commercial development. Civic anchors include Shawnee Mission Park, a large recreational space with a lake, and branches of the Johnson County Library. The school’s location means families typically drive for drop-off and pickup. The school’s size is moderate for a PK-6 building, and the grade configuration allows students to remain in the same school from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade before moving on to a middle school elsewhere in the district.

Overall, Shawanoe Elementary serves a high-poverty, racially diverse student body in a stable suburb of Kansas City. Its state test results are on the lower end compared with other Johnson County schools, and a parent considering this school should ask about the specific supports for math and literacy improvement. The school’s primary strength is its role as a community anchor within the Shawnee Mission district, which offers broader programmatic pathways once students graduate to secondary school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 326%

School 26% · District 53% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

Grade 420%

School 20% · District 57% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 44 pts below county median

Grade 525%

School 25% · District 58% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

Grade 623%

School 23% · District 58% · ▼ 35 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 330%

School 30% · District 60% · ▼ 30 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 37 pts below county median

Grade 428%

School 28% · District 62% · ▼ 34 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 40 pts below county median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 63% · ▼ 39 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 43 pts below county median

Grade 621%

School 21% · District 59% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

Science

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 54% · ▼ 44 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 47 pts below county median

This schoolShawnee Mission Pub Sch, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income25%Higher-income60%35 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income23%Higher-income50%27 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income22%Higher-income18%4 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income15%Higher-income46%31 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income25%Higher-income14%10 pp gap