Hazel Grove Elem

As a large K-5 school in Kansas City, Kansas, Hazel Grove Elem educates 537 students from grades K through 5, run under Kansas City. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 313 students.

Hazel Grove Elem is one of 43 schools operated by Kansas City, a district that teaches 21,538 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Hazel Grove Elem lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 14% Asian, 9% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Hazel Grove Elem lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wyandotte County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hazel Grove Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.5%; this one delivers 25.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wyandotte County) logs that median household earnings sit near $63,631, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Wyandotte County runs 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), of which Hazel Grove Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gloria Willis Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hazel Grove Elem comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 10.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hazel Grove Elem has changed only slightly, going from 546 students in 2018 to 537 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 27% to 48% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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