WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY

WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, part of NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. The school teaches 435 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 315 students per school, that is 38% above typical.

WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY is one of 33 schools operated by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74, a district that hosts 21,252 students overall.

In terms of who attends, WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY lists that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 23% Black, 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.1%; actual is 27.2%, a gap of -22.9 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Clay County) reports that median household earnings sit near $88,468, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY is one of 80 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students).

Nearest neighbor: LINE CREEK ELEM., around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. WEST ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 435). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 45% to 34%.

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