MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE

MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE is one of the roomy 6-8 campuss in BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, overseen by BLUE SPRINGS R-IV, with 813 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE sits 76% larger than that benchmark.

Within BLUE SPRINGS R-IV, which oversees 20 schools and 14,657 students, MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 64%; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: CORDILL-MASON ELEM., around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MORELAND RIDGE MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 989 students in 2018 compared to 813 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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