ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM.

ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. is a reasonably sized primary school in JOPLIN, Missouri, run under JOPLIN SCHOOLS. The school works with 277 students in grades pre-K through 5.

JOPLIN SCHOOLS comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,873 students; ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. is among them.

On the student-mix side, ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. shows that White students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Jasper County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Jasper County put median household earnings sit near $60,694, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jasper County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,177 students), ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

COLLEGE VIEW SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM.. On composite proficiency, ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM. operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROYAL HEIGHTS ELEM.'s enrollment has expanded 16% since 2018, when it stood at 239 (now 277). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 13% to 23%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.