Sunflower Elem
Paola, KS · Elementary School · Grades 3-5
Sunflower Elem is a elementary school in Paola, KS with 403 students enrolled and a 63% proficiency rate. Part of Paola. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Sunflower Elem is a elementary school located in Paola, Kansas. The school serves 403 students in grades 3-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 63% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
38% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Sunflower Elem is part of the Paola in Kansas.
How This School Compares
Sunflower Elem has 403 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Paola (444 students). Its 63% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points above the district average of 61%. Compared to the Kansas state average of 50%, the school performs 13 points higher. With a 13.9:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sunflower Elem has 403 students enrolled in grades 3-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.9:1.
According to EDFacts data, 63% of students at Sunflower Elem meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Sunflower Elem is part of the Paola in Paola, Kansas. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
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School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.