OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY

OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in GLADSTONE, Missouri, part of NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, educateing 277 students in grades pre-K through 5.

NORTH KANSAS CITY 74 runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 21,252 students. OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY logs that White students make up the majority at 55%. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY logs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clay County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.1%; OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY posts 77.7%, +27.6 points above that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household earnings sit near $88,468, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 38.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. OAKWOOD MANOR ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 290 (now 277). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 67% to 55%.

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