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Enrollment
546
Elementary
DISTRICT 492 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLUE SPRINGS R-IV·NCES 290531002836
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.
201 NE ANDERSON, LEE'S SUMMIT, MO 64064 · (816) 874-3720 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Missouri public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Missouri public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
75 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 52% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
76.2%
MO avg 44.9% . -0.2pp since 2021
Math
81.3%
MO avg 43.8% . +2.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 49.3% | 26.9% | 21.6% | 2.0% |
| Math | 56.9% | 24.4% | 16.0% | 2.4% |
Share of tested students at each MAP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.2% | 81.3% |
| 2023-24 | 78.9% | 79.2% |
| 2022-23 | 78.9% | 77.1% |
| 2021-22 | 76.4% | 78.7% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
78.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.8%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.'s state test result (78.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. this school | 546 | 13.7% | 78.4% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY WENTZVILLE | 599 | 16.4% | 54.1% |
| MASON ELEM. LEE'S SUMMIT | 512 | 15.4% | 57.6% |
| SUMMIT POINTE ELEM. KANSAS CITY | 534 | 12.0% | 55.3% |
| UNION CHAPEL ELEM. KANSAS CITY | 609 | 14.6% | 62.0% |
| CEDAR CREEK ELEM. LEE'S SUMMIT | 487 | 16.4% | 56.4% |
Matched among Missouri elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #11 of 1,002 | #1 of 126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #7 of 1,019 ▲ 4 | #1 of 126 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #16 of 1,018 ▼ 6 | #2 of 126 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #480 of 943 | #52 of 124 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #108 of 1,294 | #17 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #861 of 950 | #110 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.4% | #374 of 953 | #97 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.7% | #1,084 of 1,165 | #131 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.2% | #154 of 251 | #24 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
546
+32 (+6%) vs 2020
-13% since 2010-11, when it was 625
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 546 | 35.3 | 15.4:1 | 14% (75) |
| 2023-24 | 556 | 37.8 | 14.7:1 | 13% (73) |
| 2022-23 | 565 | 35.8 | 15.8:1 | 11% (62) |
| 2020-21 | 514 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 11% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 514 | 32.8 | 15.7:1 | 11% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 7% (39) |
| 2010-11 | 625 | 32 | 19.5:1 | 8% (49) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM..
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (514 to 546); teachers up 8% (32.8 to 35.3).
About VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. is classified as an elementary school. It is located in LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri. The school enrolls 546 students in kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Missouri average about 315 students, which makes this school 73% larger than average.
BLUE SPRINGS R-IV counts 20 schools and 14,657 students, including VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM..
More than half of enrollment at VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. is White: 72%. Other groups make up 11% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school's share is higher. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.
Its ratio of 15.4:1 is based on 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Missouri have an average ratio of 12.4:1. In all, 14% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Jackson County average 60%.
On the allk12 Grade, VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. lands at A+, ahead of 95% of Missouri public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. is 54.8%. It actually posts 78.4%, which is 23.7 points higher and in the top 10% of Missouri schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Jackson County show that the median household earns about $68,577 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Jackson County has 244 public schools with about 105,714 students, including VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM..
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. is about 2.0 miles from DELTA WOODS MIDDLE, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Federal data place VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. enrolled 514 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 546.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
719,976
Census ACS
Median income
$68,577
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
244
105,714 students
Quick facts
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- BRITTANY HILL MIDDLEMiddle · 807 students
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- LEE'S SUMMIT NORTH HIGHHigh · 1,940 students
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- SUMMIT LAKES MIDDLEMiddle · 1,005 students
Nearby schools
- DELTA WOODS MIDDLE2.0 mi · 831
- WILLIAM SOUTHERN ELEM.2.3 mi · 458
- WILLIAM YATES ELEM.2.5 mi · 463
- LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARY2.5 mi · 379
- CHAPEL LAKES ELEM.2.7 mi · 600
- SYCAMORE HILLS ELEM.2.7 mi · 574
Frequently asked questions
About VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.How large is VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.?
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. enrolls approximately 546 students in grades KG-05.
Is VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. an elementary, middle, or high school?
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM..
What is the racial breakdown of students at VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM.?
At VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM., the student body is approximately 72% White, 8% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. in?
VOY SPEARS JR. ELEM. is part of BLUE SPRINGS R-IV.
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