FOX HILL ELEMENTARY

FOX HILL ELEMENTARY is a large primary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, operated by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. The school teaches 606 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 92% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

NORTH KANSAS CITY 74 comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 21,252 students; FOX HILL ELEMENTARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, FOX HILL ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

In terms of school funding signals, FOX HILL ELEMENTARY records 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FOX HILL ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.0%.

In the area at large, Clay County reports that median household earnings sit near $88,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Clay County's 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), FOX HILL ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NEW MARK MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FOX HILL ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. FOX HILL ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 663 (now 606). White enrollment moved from 66% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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