Enrollment
384
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·INDEPENDENCE 30·NCES 291548000716
OTT ELEM.
1525 N NOLAND RD, INDEPENDENCE, MO 64050 · (816) 521-5435 · Jackson County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL384 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
288 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 54%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersEnglish Language Arts
76.2%
MO avg 49.5% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
81.2%
MO avg 48.7% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Source: MO DVT (Growth). All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+28.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 29 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
384
-55 (-13%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.1:1
% White
55%
was 64%
% Hispanic
24%
was 14%
% Black
12%
was 7%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About OTT ELEM.
As a mid-tier elementary school in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, OTT ELEM. works with 384 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under INDEPENDENCE 30. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.
INDEPENDENCE 30 comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 14,272 students; OTT ELEM. is among them.
Looking at the student body, OTT ELEM. logs that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at OTT ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Jackson County's rate of about 60%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OTT ELEM. 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 49.9%; OTT ELEM. posts 78.6%, +28.7 points above that line.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Jackson County put the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), OTT ELEM. is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OTT ELEM. comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.
OTT ELEM. operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OTT ELEM. has shrank 13%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 384 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 64% to 55% over that span.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
719,976
Census ACS
Median income
$68,577
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
244
105,714 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in INDEPENDENCE 30
- TRUMAN HIGHHigh · 1,720 students
- WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGHHigh · 1,417 students
- VAN HORN HIGHHigh · 1,067 students
- CLIFFORD H. NOWLIN MIDDLEMiddle · 902 students
- BRIDGER MIDDLEMiddle · 744 students
- PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLEMiddle · 731 students
Other schools in INDEPENDENCE
- TRUMAN HIGHHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT OSAGE HIGHHigh · 1,545 students
- WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGHHigh · 1,417 students
- CLIFFORD H. NOWLIN MIDDLEMiddle · 902 students
- BRIDGER MIDDLEMiddle · 744 students
- PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLEMiddle · 731 students
Nearby schools
- WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH0.3 mi · 1,417
- BRYANT ELEM.1.0 mi · 193
- MILL CREEK ELEM.1.2 mi · 250
- ABRAHAM MALLINSON ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 282
- THOMAS HART BENTON ELEM.1.5 mi · 401
- SUGAR CREEK ELEM.1.6 mi · 134
Frequently asked questions
About OTT ELEM.How many students attend OTT ELEM.?
OTT ELEM. enrolls approximately 384 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does OTT ELEM. serve?
OTT ELEM. serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at OTT ELEM.?
The student-to-teacher ratio at OTT ELEM. is approximately 15.3:1 (25 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at OTT ELEM.?
At OTT ELEM., the student body is approximately 55% White, 24% Hispanic, 12% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is OTT ELEM. in?
OTT ELEM. is part of INDEPENDENCE 30.
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