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Best kept secret on campus at PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.?
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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 454 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARK HILL·NCES 292355002025
PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.
8101 NW BELVIDERE PKWY, KANSAS CITY, MO 64152 · (816) 359-4380 · Platte County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
144 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 54%
Community
1
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
80.9%
MO avg 49.5% . +17.4pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
MO avg 48.7% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 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
73.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% 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 22 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
437
-36 (-8%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 15.4:1
% White
67%
was 71%
% Hispanic
13%
was 9%
% Black
11%
was 10%
% Asian
2%
was 6%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
Platte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
110,371
Census ACS
Median income
$96,227
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
47%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
17,612 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PARK HILL
- PARK HILL HIGHHigh · 1,947 students
- PARK HILL SOUTH HIGHHigh · 1,890 students
- WALDEN MIDDLEMiddle · 730 students
- PLAZA MIDDLEMiddle · 673 students
- LAKEVIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 653 students
- UNION CHAPEL ELEM.Elementary · 609 students
Other schools in KANSAS CITY
- STALEY HIGHHigh · 2,091 students
- PARK HILL HIGHHigh · 1,947 students
- OAK PARK HIGHHigh · 1,755 students
- NORTH KANSAS CITY HIGHHigh · 1,719 students
- RUSKIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,299 students
- WINNETONKA HIGHHigh · 1,238 students
Nearby schools
- GERNER FAMILY EARLY ED CTR.0.6 mi · 392
- CONGRESS MIDDLE0.8 mi · 601
- ALFRED L. RENNER ELEM.0.9 mi · 403
- PARK HILL HIGH1.0 mi · 1,947
- PLAZA MIDDLE1.1 mi · 673
- ENGLISH LANDING ELEM.1.5 mi · 435
Frequently asked questions
About PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.What is the total enrollment at PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.?
PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. enrolls approximately 437 students in grades KG-05.
Is PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. an elementary, middle, or high school?
PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. have?
PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PRAIRIE POINT ELEM.?
At PRAIRIE POINT ELEM., the student body is approximately 67% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. public or private?
PRAIRIE POINT ELEM. is a public K-12 school, overseen by PARK HILL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.