BOONE ELEM.

BOONE ELEM. is a cozy elementary-level community in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, part of CENTER 58. The school educates 247 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Within CENTER 58, which oversees 7 schools and 2,339 students, BOONE ELEM. is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BOONE ELEM. reports that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting BOONE ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, BOONE ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows median household income runs about $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), BOONE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: YELLOW JACKET EARLY LEARNING, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOONE ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. BOONE ELEM.'s enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 318 (now 247). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 34% to 28% over that span.

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