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Enrollment
407
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII·NCES 291830002311
HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.
400 SE MILLSTONE AVE, LEE'S SUMMIT, MO 64063 · (816) 986-2250 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL407 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
45 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 52% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
63.2%
MO avg 44.9% . +6.5pp since 2021
Math
53.6%
MO avg 43.8% . -7.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 32.1% | 31.1% | 26.6% | 10.0% |
| Math | 23.8% | 29.8% | 28.4% | 17.8% |
Share of tested students at each MAP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.2% | 53.6% |
| 2023-24 | 68.7% | 61.8% |
| 2022-23 | 68.8% | 68.4% |
| 2021-22 | 56.7% | 61.4% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.
HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.'s state test result (60.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. this school | 407 | 11.1% | 60.5% |
| CRESTWOOD ELEM. ST LOUIS | 457 | 12.5% | 58.2% |
| LONGVIEW FARM ELEM. LEE'S SUMMIT | 401 | 7.5% | 61.5% |
| BOONE TRAIL ELEM. WENTZVILLE | 479 | 12.5% | 49.4% |
| MOUNT HOPE ELEM. O'FALLON | 444 | 15.5% | 52.3% |
| MID RIVERS ELEM. ST PETERS | 444 | 15.3% | 53.8% |
Matched among Missouri elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #135 of 1,002 | #9 of 126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #262 of 1,019 ▼ 124 | #18 of 126 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #110 of 1,018 ▼ 60 | #7 of 126 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #367 of 943 | #55 of 124 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 407 | #366 of 1,294 | #50 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #547 of 950 | #56 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.3% | #471 of 953 | #108 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.1% | #1,111 of 1,165 | #135 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.1% | #101 of 684 | #20 of 92 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
407
-175 (-30%) vs 2020
-38% since 2000-01, when it was 657
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 16.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 407 | 30.6 | 13.3:1 | 11% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 444 | 32.1 | 13.8:1 | 9% (39) |
| 2022-23 | 463 | 31.5 | 14.7:1 | 6% (29) |
| 2020-21 | 582 | 36 | 16.2:1 | 12% (68) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 34.5 | 16.2:1 | 10% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 31 | 16.2:1 | 12% (61) |
| 2010-11 | 463 | 26 | 17.8:1 | 9% (43) |
| 2000-01 | 657 | 36 | 18.3:1 | 4% (24) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGHLAND PARK ELEM..
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (558 to 407); teachers down 11% (34.5 to 30.6).
About HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.
A mid-sized elementary school in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is part of LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII. It had 407 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Missouri have about 315 students on average; enrollment here is 29% higher.
LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII has 17,695 students in 28 schools, and HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is one of those schools.
The share of White students at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is 78%, a majority. After that, the student body is 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 6% Black. Census figures show Jackson County is about 62% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 38, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 30.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 13.3 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Missouri, the average ratio is 12.4:1. HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 11%. The gap from the 60% average for public schools in Jackson County is 49 points.
HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.'s average proficiency rate across its state test results of 60.5% is 4.7 points above the 55.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Jackson County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $68,577 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Jackson County number 244, with about 105,714 students.
A public school about 1.2 miles away, RICHARDSON ELEM., is the closest to HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.. HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 60.5% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. the locale Suburb: Small, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
In 2020-21, HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. enrolled 582 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 407. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.2:1 in 2020-21 to 13.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
719,976
Census ACS
Median income
$68,577
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
244
105,714 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII
- LEE'S SUMMIT WEST HIGHHigh · 1,999 students
- LEE'S SUMMIT SR. HIGHHigh · 1,989 students
- LEE'S SUMMIT NORTH HIGHHigh · 1,940 students
- East Trails Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- BERNARD C. CAMPBELL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,043 students
- SUMMIT LAKES MIDDLEMiddle · 1,005 students
Other schools in LEE'S SUMMIT
- LEE'S SUMMIT WEST HIGHHigh · 1,999 students
- LEE'S SUMMIT SR. HIGHHigh · 1,989 students
- LEE'S SUMMIT NORTH HIGHHigh · 1,940 students
- East Trails Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,051 students
- BERNARD C. CAMPBELL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,043 students
- SUMMIT LAKES MIDDLEMiddle · 1,005 students
Other HIGHLAND PARK Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 15 states are named HIGHLAND PARK Elementary. HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is the 11th largest of the 23.
- Highland Park ElementaryGILBERT, AZ · 787 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolUpper Darby, PA · 737 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolPFLUGERVILLE, TX · 706 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolBroken Arrow, OK · 654 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 649 students
Nearby schools
- RICHARDSON ELEM.1.2 mi · 405
- GREAT BEGINNINGS EARLY ED CTR.1.2 mi · 331
- PRAIRIE VIEW ELEM.1.3 mi · 604
- WOODLAND ELEM.1.8 mi · 423
- East Trails Middle School2.2 mi · 1,051
- SUNSET VALLEY ELEM.2.4 mi · 310
Frequently asked questions
About HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.What is the total enrollment at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.?
HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. enrolls approximately 407 students in grades KG-05.
Is HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. an elementary, middle, or high school?
HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.?
Approximately 13.3:1 students per teacher at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM..
What is the student diversity at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM.?
Student demographics at HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. are roughly 78% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. in?
HIGHLAND PARK ELEM. is part of LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII.
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