CEDAR CREEK ELEM.

Set in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, CEDAR CREEK ELEM. is a large elementary campus, one of the schools within LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII. It enrolls 487 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 55% above the state mean of about 315.

LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 17,695 students. CEDAR CREEK ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CEDAR CREEK ELEM. logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 13% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CEDAR CREEK ELEM. has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CEDAR CREEK ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CEDAR CREEK ELEM. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

LONGVIEW FARM ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 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), CEDAR CREEK ELEM. ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 528 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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