HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.

HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is a primary school of medium-sized scale in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, one of the schools within LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII, works with 407 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% above the state mean of about 315.

LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 17,695 students; HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is among them.

On demographics, HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. reports that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder reads as 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.1%; this one delivers 35.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household income runs about $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RICHARDSON ELEM., roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. has ticked down 27%, going from 558 students in 2018 to 407 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.