LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM.

LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. operates as a heavily attended elementary campus in BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, run under BLUE SPRINGS R-IV. Current enrollment sits at 536 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 70% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 20 schools in BLUE SPRINGS R-IV (14,657 students total), LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. shows that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows 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%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. is one.

The closest other public school is BRITTANY HILL MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

LUCY FRANKLIN ELEM. operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 618 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.