DELTA WOODS MIDDLE

DELTA WOODS MIDDLE is a sizable middle school in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, operated by BLUE SPRINGS R-IV. The school instructs 831 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 80% larger than the state mean of about 461.

BLUE SPRINGS R-IV comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 14,657 students; DELTA WOODS MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, DELTA WOODS MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 16% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, DELTA WOODS MIDDLE has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DELTA WOODS MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.9%; DELTA WOODS MIDDLE posts 30.5%, -20.3 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jackson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. DELTA WOODS MIDDLE is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

CHAPEL LAKES ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DELTA WOODS MIDDLE. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DELTA WOODS MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 852 students in 2018 compared to 831 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 12% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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