CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL

As a low-enrollment elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL works with 242 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,003 students; CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL is among them.

Looking at the student body, CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% White, 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 48.5%.

Around the school, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL has edged up 6%, going from 229 students in 2018 to 242 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 35% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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