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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