LIBERTY OAKS ELEM.

Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. is a roomy primary school, one of the schools within LIBERTY 53. It educates 496 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 57% above typical.

LIBERTY 53 comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 11,826 students; LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. is among them.

In terms of who attends, LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. records that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.7%; this one delivers 48.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household income runs about $88,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. is one.

EARLY CHILD. EDUCATION CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIBERTY OAKS ELEM.. On composite proficiency, LIBERTY OAKS ELEM. comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 513 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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