GRADEN ELEM.

Set in PARKVILLE, Missouri, GRADEN ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, overseen by PARK HILL. It teaches 415 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so GRADEN ELEM. sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

PARK HILL comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 11,937 students; GRADEN ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, GRADEN ELEM. reports that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, GRADEN ELEM. lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting GRADEN ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at GRADEN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GRADEN ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, Platte County reports that the typical household earns roughly $96,227 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Platte County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students), of which GRADEN ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAKEVIEW MIDDLE, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GRADEN ELEM.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRADEN ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.8%.

GRADEN ELEM. operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRADEN ELEM. has fell 26%, going from 561 students in 2018 to 415 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 80% to 74%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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