BRYANT ELEM.

BRYANT ELEM. operates as a close-knit elementary school in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, operated by INDEPENDENCE 30. Current enrollment sits at 193 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 39% smaller than typical.

INDEPENDENCE 30 comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 14,272 students; BRYANT ELEM. is among them.

Looking at the student body, BRYANT ELEM. shows that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, BRYANT ELEM. has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRYANT ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that median household income runs about $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), BRYANT ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRYANT ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRYANT ELEM. has contracted 20%, going from 241 students in 2018 to 193 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 29% to 35%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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