FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM.

FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, run under BLUE SPRINGS R-IV, with 401 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 315.

BLUE SPRINGS R-IV runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 14,657 students. FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 14% Black, 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 42.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. is one.

THOMAS J. ULTICAN ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FRANKLIN SMITH ELEM. has contracted 17%, going from 485 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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