MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM.

MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. is an intermediate school of moderately sized scale in BELTON, Missouri, one of the schools within BELTON 124, hosting 435 students in grades 5 through 6.

MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. is one of 8 schools operated by BELTON 124, a district that serves 4,230 students overall.

In terms of who attends, MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. shows that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 15% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cass County (around 35%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cass County put median household income runs about $87,535, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. is one of 44 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students).

GRACE EARLY CHILD. ED. CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILL CREEK UPPER ELEM. has edged down 27%, going from 595 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 70% to 55% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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