LAUREL HILLS ELEM.

LAUREL HILLS ELEM. operates as a reasonably sized primary school in RAYTOWN, Missouri, part of RAYTOWN C-2. Current enrollment sits at 344 students spanning grades K through 5.

RAYTOWN C-2 comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,676 students; LAUREL HILLS ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, LAUREL HILLS ELEM. logs that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 19% White, 9% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, LAUREL HILLS ELEM. records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 75% of students at LAUREL HILLS ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LAUREL HILLS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 63.1%, a residual of +13.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), LAUREL HILLS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

RAYTOWN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAUREL HILLS ELEM.. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAUREL HILLS ELEM. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.1%.

LAUREL HILLS ELEM. operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 344 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.