SPRING BRANCH ELEM.

As an average-sized elementary campus in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, SPRING BRANCH ELEM. teaches 278 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within INDEPENDENCE 30.

Across the 29 schools in INDEPENDENCE 30 (14,272 students total), SPRING BRANCH ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SPRING BRANCH ELEM. logs that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Hispanic, 13% Black, 11% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, SPRING BRANCH ELEM. has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SPRING BRANCH ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which SPRING BRANCH ELEM. is one.

LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPRING BRANCH ELEM.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SPRING BRANCH ELEM. at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 285 students in 2018 compared to 278 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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