RIDGEVIEW ELEM.

RIDGEVIEW ELEM. is a medium-sized elementary campus in LIBERTY, Missouri, one of the schools within LIBERTY 53. The school instructs 331 students in grades K through 5.

LIBERTY 53 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,826 students. RIDGEVIEW ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RIDGEVIEW ELEM. records that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black.

Looking at school resources, RIDGEVIEW ELEM. shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting RIDGEVIEW ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, RIDGEVIEW ELEM. is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.5%; RIDGEVIEW ELEM. posts 28.0%, -22.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clay County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Clay County's 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), RIDGEVIEW ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

HERITAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIDGEVIEW ELEM. ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 331 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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