WARFORD ELEMENTARY

WARFORD ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized primary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, operated by HICKMAN MILLS C-1. The school hosts 407 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 29% above typical.

HICKMAN MILLS C-1 comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,833 students; WARFORD ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WARFORD ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is Black, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at WARFORD ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WARFORD 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 41.0%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jackson County put the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WARFORD ELEMENTARY is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

DALE M THOMPSON/TRAILS WEST S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WARFORD ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

WARFORD ELEMENTARY operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 29%: 315 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 66% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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