LINE CREEK ELEM.

Located at 5801 NW WAUKOMIS DR, in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, LINE CREEK ELEM. is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that works with 321 students (grades K through 5), part of PARK HILL.

LINE CREEK ELEM. is one of 18 schools operated by PARK HILL, a district that educates 11,937 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LINE CREEK ELEM. reports that 59% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 17% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at LINE CREEK ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Platte County's rate of about 27%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, LINE CREEK ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.5%; actual is 24.0%, a gap of -26.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Platte County) records that median household earnings sit near $96,227, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Platte County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students), LINE CREEK ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LINE CREEK ELEM. ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 43%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 21% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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