DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY

As a large elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY serves 566 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. Enrollment runs roughly 80% above the state mean of about 315.

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

On demographics, DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Black, 19% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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, DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.1%; DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY posts 20.4%, -29.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Clay County put the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Clay County's 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTHGATE MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DAVIDSON ELEMENTARY has edged up 24%, going from 455 students in 2018 to 566 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 50% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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