CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY

CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY operates as a sprawling elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, overseen by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. Current enrollment sits at 487 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 55% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Within NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, which oversees 33 schools and 21,252 students, CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Black, 17% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 10% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Clay County) logs that median household income runs about $88,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Clay County's 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRIARCLIFF ELEMENTARY, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.5%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 487). White enrollment moved from 36% to 30% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.