LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM.

LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. is a mid-sized elementary school in LIBERTY, Missouri, run under LIBERTY 53. The school works with 443 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Within LIBERTY 53, which oversees 18 schools and 11,826 students, LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. is one campus in the system.

On demographics, LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 38% of students at LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -12.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Clay County put the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: FRANKLIN ELEM., around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM.. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LILLIAN SCHUMACHER ELEM. ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 75% to 71%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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