TRUMAN ELEMENTARY

TRUMAN ELEMENTARY, a mid-sized elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, run under HICKMAN MILLS C-1, educates 287 students, covering grades K through 5.

Within HICKMAN MILLS C-1, which oversees 11 schools and 4,833 students, TRUMAN ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, TRUMAN ELEMENTARY records that 56% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 11% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, TRUMAN ELEMENTARY shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages about 12.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 100% of students at TRUMAN ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, TRUMAN ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the broader 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which TRUMAN ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: DOBBS ELEMENTARY, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRUMAN ELEMENTARY at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.4%.

TRUMAN ELEMENTARY operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 33%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 78% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.