CHAPEL LAKES ELEM.

Set in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. is a large primary school, operated by BLUE SPRINGS R-IV. It instructs 600 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. sits 90% above that benchmark.

BLUE SPRINGS R-IV comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 14,657 students; CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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), CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jackson County shows 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%. CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is DELTA WOODS MIDDLE, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.6%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. CHAPEL LAKES ELEM.'s enrollment has grew 16% since 2018, when it stood at 518 (now 600). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.