CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY

CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY is one of the expansive K-5 schools in GLADSTONE, Missouri, overseen by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, with 644 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 104% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

NORTH KANSAS CITY 74 runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 21,252 students. CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Clay County shows median household income runs about $88,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: EARLY EDUCATION CENTER, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, CHAPEL HILL ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 19%: 542 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 57% to 52% over that span.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.