SOUTHWOOD ELEM.

SOUTHWOOD ELEM. is one of the mid-sized primary schools in RAYTOWN, Missouri, part of RAYTOWN C-2, with 346 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

RAYTOWN C-2 comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 7,676 students; SOUTHWOOD ELEM. is among them.

Looking at the student body, SOUTHWOOD ELEM. lists that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHWOOD ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.1%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -12.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jackson County shows median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), SOUTHWOOD ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHWOOD ELEM.. On composite proficiency, SOUTHWOOD ELEM. comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 21% across the same window.

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