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WARREN HILLS ELEM.
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WARREN HILLS ELEM. is a big elementary campus in LIBERTY, Missouri, overseen by LIBERTY 53. The school hosts 597 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 90% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.
LIBERTY 53 runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,826 students. WARREN HILLS ELEM. is one of those campuses.
On demographics, WARREN HILLS ELEM. reports that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Clay County (around 35%), the school's rate is south of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, WARREN HILLS ELEM. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of -19.1 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household income runs about $88,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clay County runs 80 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students), of which WARREN HILLS ELEM. is one.
LEWIS AND CLARK ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WARREN HILLS ELEM. ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 50.4%.
WARREN HILLS ELEM. operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WARREN HILLS ELEM. has ticked down 8%, going from 647 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 81% to 69%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
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