PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.

PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. is a reasonably sized K-5 school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, overseen by PARK HILL. The school enrolls 437 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. sits 39% above that benchmark.

PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. is one of 18 schools operated by PARK HILL, a district that teaches 11,937 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Platte County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 73.1%, a residual of +22.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Platte County put median household income runs about $96,227, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Platte County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students), of which PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. is one.

Nearest neighbor: GERNER FAMILY EARLY ED CTR., around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 46.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.'s enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 473 (now 437). Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 6% to 2%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.