JAMES ELEMENTARY

JAMES ELEMENTARY, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within KANSAS CITY 33, enrolls 328 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

KANSAS CITY 33 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 15,079 students. JAMES ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, JAMES ELEMENTARY logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Black, 9% Asian, 6% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, JAMES ELEMENTARY logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which JAMES ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is GLADSTONE ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES ELEMENTARY at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

JAMES ELEMENTARY operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES ELEMENTARY has rose 6%, going from 309 students in 2018 to 328 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 11% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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