East Trails Middle School

East Trails Middle School operates as a sizable junior high in Lee's Summit, Missouri, operated by LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII. Current enrollment sits at 1,051 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so East Trails Middle School sits 128% bigger than that benchmark.

LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 17,695 students; East Trails Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, East Trails Middle School reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, On paper, East Trails Middle School has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, East Trails Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 47.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records 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), East Trails Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SUNSET VALLEY ELEM., roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), East Trails Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

On the community side, members of the East Trails Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.