NORFLEET ELEM.

NORFLEET ELEM. is a mid-sized elementary-level community in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, overseen by RAYTOWN C-2. The school works with 329 students in grades K through 5.

Within RAYTOWN C-2, which oversees 17 schools and 7,676 students, NORFLEET ELEM. is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, NORFLEET ELEM. records that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% White, 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, NORFLEET ELEM. shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at NORFLEET ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, NORFLEET ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 47.3%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which NORFLEET ELEM. is one.

LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORFLEET ELEM.. On composite proficiency, NORFLEET ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

NORFLEET ELEM. operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORFLEET ELEM. has contracted 20%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.