SUNSET VALLEY ELEM.

SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. is one of the mid-sized primary schools in LEES SUMMIT, Missouri, part of LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII, with 310 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 28 schools in LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII (17,695 students total), SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Black, 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.8%; this one delivers 36.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household earnings sit near $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: East Trails Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SUNSET VALLEY ELEM. comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 467 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 76% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.