JAMES LEWIS ELEM.

JAMES LEWIS ELEM. is a K-5 school of high-enrollment scale in BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, one of the schools within BLUE SPRINGS R-IV, teacheing 473 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so JAMES LEWIS ELEM. sits 50% above that benchmark.

BLUE SPRINGS R-IV runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 14,657 students. JAMES LEWIS ELEM. is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, JAMES LEWIS ELEM. logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JAMES LEWIS ELEM. has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at JAMES LEWIS ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES LEWIS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 58.9%, a residual of +8.2 points.

Across the wider county, Jackson County reports that median household earnings sit near $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), JAMES LEWIS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMES LEWIS ELEM. ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES LEWIS ELEM. has changed only slightly, going from 484 students in 2018 to 473 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 77% to 71% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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