DOBBS ELEMENTARY

DOBBS ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, run under HICKMAN MILLS C-1. The school hosts 320 students in grades K through 5.

HICKMAN MILLS C-1 comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,833 students; DOBBS ELEMENTARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, DOBBS ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 20% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DOBBS ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.4%; DOBBS ELEMENTARY posts 76.6%, +27.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, Jackson County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), DOBBS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

SANTA FE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DOBBS ELEMENTARY at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 50.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DOBBS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 320). Black enrollment moved from 67% to 54% across the same window.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.