BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE

BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE operates as a high-enrollment junior high in BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, one of the schools within BLUE SPRINGS R-IV. Current enrollment sits at 807 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 75% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

Across the 20 schools in BLUE SPRINGS R-IV (14,657 students total), BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Black, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

On the resource side, BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE reports 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -11.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM., roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 845 (now 807). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 73% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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