NORTH ELEM.

Located at 10730 STATE HWY W, in JACKSON, Missouri, NORTH ELEM. is a compact elementary school that enrolls 249 students (grades K through 4), operated by JACKSON R-II. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 315.

Within JACKSON R-II, which oversees 10 schools and 5,827 students, NORTH ELEM. is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, NORTH ELEM. logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, NORTH ELEM. lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at NORTH ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cape Girardeau County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -14.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cape Girardeau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,464 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Cape Girardeau County's 27 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,025 students), NORTH ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EAST ELEMENTARY, around 4.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTH ELEM. at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 303 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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