CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY

CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY operates as a moderately sized primary school in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, run under INDEPENDENCE 30. Current enrollment sits at 362 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

INDEPENDENCE 30 comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 14,272 students; CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 31% White, 15% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: CLIFFORD H. NOWLIN MIDDLE, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CASSELL PARK ELEMENTARY at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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