KELSEY NORMAN ELEM.

KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in JOPLIN, Missouri, part of JOPLIN SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades K through 5.

JOPLIN SCHOOLS runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,873 students. KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. shows that White students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder comes out to 17% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Jasper County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -11.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jasper County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,694, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Jasper County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students), KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOPLIN HIGH, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. has shrank 5%, going from 315 students in 2018 to 300 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 61% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the KELSEY NORMAN ELEM. community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.