CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY

CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY is one of the average-sized primary schools in EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Missouri, one of the schools within EXCELSIOR SPRINGS 40, with 466 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY sits 48% larger than that benchmark.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS 40 comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,661 students; CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black.

Looking at school resources, CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.5%; this one comes in at 22.7%, -27.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Clay County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY is one.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.3%.

CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. CORNERSTONE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 466). Over the same period, the White share fell from 88% to 83%.

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