ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM.

ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. operates as a mid-tier primary school in LIBERTY, Missouri, overseen by LIBERTY 53. Current enrollment sits at 336 students spanning grades K through 5.

ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. is one of 18 schools operated by LIBERTY 53, a district that educates 11,826 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 25% of students at ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Clay County's 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DISCOVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALEXANDER DONIPHAN ELEM. at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 336 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 76% across the same window.

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