BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY

Located at 4100 NW BRIARCLIFF RD, in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that teaches 352 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within NORTH KANSAS CITY 74.

Within NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, which oversees 33 schools and 21,252 students, BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 21% Hispanic, 16% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Clay County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate 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%. BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY is one of 80 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students).

Nearest neighbor: CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY has rose 3%, going from 341 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025.

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