GLENDALE ELEM.

GLENDALE ELEM., a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, run under INDEPENDENCE 30, works with 417 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so GLENDALE ELEM. sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

INDEPENDENCE 30 comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 14,272 students; GLENDALE ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, GLENDALE ELEM. logs that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 22% Black, 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, GLENDALE ELEM. lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, GLENDALE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 37.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Jackson County shows 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%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), GLENDALE ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

HANTHORN EARLY EDUCATION is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 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 GLENDALE ELEM. at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. GLENDALE ELEM.'s enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 417). The White share of enrollment declined from 59% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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