DOGWOOD ELEM.

DOGWOOD ELEM. is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in KEARNEY, Missouri, one of the schools within KEARNEY R-I, with 463 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 47% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 9 schools in KEARNEY R-I (3,424 students total), DOGWOOD ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, DOGWOOD ELEM. reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, DOGWOOD ELEM. shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Clay County's rate of about 35%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DOGWOOD ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Clay County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which DOGWOOD ELEM. is one.

KEARNEY EARLY EDUCATION CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DOGWOOD ELEM. ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 505 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 94% to 89%.

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