HAZEL GROVE ELEM.

HAZEL GROVE ELEM., a mid-sized primary school in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, overseen by LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII, enrolls 331 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 28 schools in LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII (17,695 students total), HAZEL GROVE ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, HAZEL GROVE ELEM. lists that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest reads as 24% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting HAZEL GROVE ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HAZEL GROVE ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 66.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. HAZEL GROVE ELEM. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

LAKEVIEW WOODS SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HAZEL GROVE ELEM.. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HAZEL GROVE ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HAZEL GROVE ELEM. has shrank 27%, going from 456 students in 2018 to 331 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 32% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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