JOHN W. LUFF ELEM.

JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. is a reasonably sized K-5 school in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, run under INDEPENDENCE 30. The school instructs 362 students in grades pre-K through 5.

JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. is one of 29 schools operated by INDEPENDENCE 30, a district that educates 14,272 students overall.

On the student-mix side, JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. logs that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 26% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, On paper, JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 49.4%.

In the area at large, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TRUMAN HIGH, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN W. LUFF ELEM.. On composite proficiency, JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN W. LUFF ELEM. has contracted 13%, going from 414 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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