RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY

RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY operates as a mid-tier elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. Current enrollment sits at 317 students spanning grades K through 5.

NORTH KANSAS CITY 74 comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 21,252 students; RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 10% Black, 5% Asian. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 48.1%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Clay County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is MAPLE PARK MIDDLE, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, RAVENWOOD ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 317 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 48% across the same window.

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