2023 YEAR IN REVIEW

2023 Bond Passes

Blue Valley voters endorsed the 2023 bond election 70.69% to 29.31%. The $251,250,000 bond will invest in facilities, safety and technology that will benefit students and sta for years to come. One project included in the bond is the addition of a new middle school in the growing southern portion of the district. Learn more at www.bluevalleyk12.org/bond.

Blue Valley Schools ranked #1 in state employer by Forbes

Blue Valley Schools was named to the 2022 Forbes Best-in-State Employers list, ranking #1 overall among Kansas employers. Coming in at number one, Blue Valley is also the top-ranked school district employer in the state for the fourth straight year.

NEARLY 75% OF THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT POPULATION IN BLUE VALLEY IS INVOLVED IN ACTIVITIES AND/OR ATHLETICS

23 Students Earn Perfect Act Score

Academic excellence has been a cornerstone of Blue Valley’s foundation for more than 50 years and each year, students continue setting new academic achievement standards. Twenty-three students throughout the district received a perfect 36 composite score on the ACT. This accomplishment is incredibly rare, and less than 0.5% of the 1.3 million students who take the ACT earn a perfect score.

Blue Valley North: Luke Wen-Tsu Chen, Eric Garretson, Johnathan Subramanian, Kayoko Thornton, Caleb Deng, Edward Mu, Aiden Juhl, Quinten Schafer, Elizabeth Lim

Blue Valley West: Avery Vogel, Soumya Takalkar, Shishir Vargheese, Eric Seo

Blue Valley Southwest: Reese Burgener, David Mick, Harvin Sandhu, Parker Toman

Blue Valley Northwest: Megan Wang, Mofei Wang

Blue Valley High: Noor Haideri, Nickan Safi, Edward Jiang, Nancy Pei

1,752 GRADUATES IN THE CLASS OF 2023

1,315 CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES

74% OF TEACHERS WITH A MASTER’S DEGREE OR HIGHER

22,408 STUDENTS ENROLLED EC-12

1,882 CERTIFIED EMPLOYEES

45 plays and musicals across Blue Valley middle and high schools

MATT CHRISTENSEN SELECTED AS KANSAS MASTER TEACHER

Matt Christensen was among the seven teachers in Kansas named a Kansas Master Teacher. Christensen started at Blue Valley Northwest in 1999 and moved to Blue Valley Southwest in 2021. He has been at Blue Valley Southwest since then. Through his personalized e orts to learn, he has helped thousands of Blue Valley students succeed for the 23 years he has been with the district.

Since 1954, select teachers from schools across the state have been nominated, selected and named Kansas Master Teachers. The awards are presented annually to only seven teachers who have served the profession long and well and who also typify the good qualities of earnest and conscientious teachers.