LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY teaches 379 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within RAYTOWN C-2. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY sits 20% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 17 schools in RAYTOWN C-2 (7,676 students total), LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 32% Black, 23% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +13.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY is one.

NORFLEET ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY has declined 8%, going from 412 students in 2018 to 379 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 37% to 32% over that span.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.