BLUE RIDGE ELEM.

Located at 6410 BLUE RIDGE BLVD, in RAYTOWN, Missouri, BLUE RIDGE ELEM. is a mid-tier primary school that enrolls 299 students (grades K through 5), overseen by RAYTOWN C-2.

RAYTOWN C-2 comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,676 students; BLUE RIDGE ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, BLUE RIDGE ELEM. shows that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 29% White, 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BLUE RIDGE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -6.0 points.

Across the wider county, Jackson County reports that median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which BLUE RIDGE ELEM. is one.

NEW TRAILS EARLY LEARNING CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BLUE RIDGE ELEM. comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 24%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 37% to 29%.

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