SUMMIT POINTE ELEM.

As a sprawling K-5 school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. educates 534 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII. That puts it 70% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 17,695 students. SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. reports that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. Compared to Jackson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 12% of students at SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is HAWTHORN HILL ELEM., roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. has declined 19%, going from 662 students in 2018 to 534 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 63% across the same window.

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