BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY

Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is a high-enrollment elementary-level community, run under NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. It teaches 642 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 104% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is one of 33 schools operated by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, a district that caters to 21,252 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder breaks down as 13% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 65.7%, a residual of +14.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Clay County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Clay County's 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

STALEY HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY has decreased 17%, going from 771 students in 2018 to 642 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 65% to 60%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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