Enrollment
319
Elementary
DISTRICT 304 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAYTOWN C-2·NCES 292607001532
WESTRIDGE ELEM.
8500 E 77TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64138 · (816) 268-7290 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL319 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Missouri public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
13.8:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
232 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
16.2%
MO avg 44.9% . +3.1pp since 2021
Math
16.8%
MO avg 43.8% . +7.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 3.5% | 13.3% | 27.4% | 55.6% |
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 | 16.2% | 16.8% |
| 2023-24 | 16.5% | 13.2% |
| 2022-23 | 15.2% | 9.8% |
| 2021-22 | 13.1% | 9.5% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
15.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 WESTRIDGE ELEM.
WESTRIDGE ELEM.'s state test result (15.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTRIDGE ELEM. this school | 319 | 72.7% | 15.8% |
| SPRING VALLEY ELEM. RAYTOWN | 353 | 73.7% | 18.2% |
| LAUREL HILLS ELEM. RAYTOWN | 344 | 75.3% | 28.1% |
| BLUE RIDGE ELEM. RAYTOWN | 299 | 68.9% | 29.2% |
| ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KANSAS CITY | 244 | 68.9% | 28.2% |
| CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET KANSAS CITY | 355 | 64.2% | 28.0% |
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 WESTRIDGE ELEM. ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #919 of 1,002 | #107 of 126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #903 of 1,019 ▲ 37 | #104 of 126 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.2% | #938 of 1,018 ▼ 4 | #108 of 126 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #279 of 943 | #29 of 124 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 319 | #641 of 1,294 | #96 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #648 of 950 | #74 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.3% | #101 of 953 | #33 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.7% | #305 of 1,165 | #65 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #348 of 684 | #55 of 92 |
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
319
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 417
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 319 | 23.2 | 13.8:1 | 73% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 334 | 22 | 15.2:1 | 71% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 321 | 24.9 | 12.9:1 | 74% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 328 | 27 | 12.2:1 | 75% (245) |
| 2017-18 | 367 | 27.1 | 13.6:1 | 77% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 424 | 27 | 15.7:1 | 73% (311) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 67% (258) |
| 2000-01 | 474 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 46% (219) |
| 1990-91 | 417 | 23 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WESTRIDGE ELEM..
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (367 to 319); teachers down 14% (27.1 to 23.2).
About WESTRIDGE ELEM.
WESTRIDGE ELEM. is a mid-sized elementary school located in KANSAS CITY, Missouri. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 319 students in 2024-25.
RAYTOWN C-2 has 7,676 students in 17 schools, and WESTRIDGE ELEM. is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at WESTRIDGE ELEM. are Black (51%). Beyond that, enrollment is 18% White, 16% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. In Jackson County overall, about 22% of residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
The school's 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1. Elementary schools in Missouri average 12.4:1, 1.3 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 73% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 60% average for public schools in Jackson County.
Among Missouri public elementary schools, WESTRIDGE ELEM. outscored 11%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, WESTRIDGE ELEM. is in the bottom 10% of Missouri schools: 15.8% actual against 32.6% predicted.
For Jackson County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $68,577, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. There are 244 public schools in the county, enrolling about 105,714, WESTRIDGE ELEM. among them.
The closest school to WESTRIDGE ELEM. is THREE TRAILS PRESCHOOL, located about 0.8 miles away. WESTRIDGE ELEM. is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. WESTRIDGE ELEM.'s average proficiency of 15.8% compares with 47.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES describes the area around WESTRIDGE ELEM. as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 328 to 319, a 3% decline. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.2:1 to 13.8:1.
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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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- RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGHHigh · 1,089 students
- RAYTOWN MIDDLEMiddle · 667 students
- SOUTH MIDDLEMiddle · 510 students
- RAYTOWN CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 488 students
- LITTLE BLUE ELEMENTARYElementary · 379 students
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- NORTH KANSAS CITY HIGHHigh · 1,719 students
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Other WESTRIDGE Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named WESTRIDGE Elementary. WESTRIDGE ELEM. is the 8th largest of the 8.
- WESTRIDGE ELEM.BALLWIN, MO · 397 students
- Westridge ElementaryWest Des Moines, IA · 744 students
- Westridge ElementaryWoodbridge, VA · 642 students
- Westridge Elementary SchoolLITTLETON, CO · 400 students
- Westridge Elementary SchoolLake Oswego, OR · 389 students
Nearby schools
- THREE TRAILS PRESCHOOL0.8 mi · 172
- SOUTH MIDDLE0.8 mi · 510
- SPRING VALLEY ELEM.0.9 mi · 353
- SOUTHWOOD ELEM.1.5 mi · 346
- NEW TRAILS EARLY LEARNING CTR.1.7 mi · 101
- BLUE RIDGE ELEM.1.7 mi · 299
Frequently asked questions
About WESTRIDGE ELEM.How large is WESTRIDGE ELEM.?
WESTRIDGE ELEM. enrolls approximately 319 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does WESTRIDGE ELEM. serve?
WESTRIDGE ELEM. serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at WESTRIDGE ELEM.?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at WESTRIDGE ELEM..
What is the student diversity at WESTRIDGE ELEM.?
Student demographics at WESTRIDGE ELEM. are roughly 18% White, 16% Hispanic, 51% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is WESTRIDGE ELEM. in?
WESTRIDGE ELEM. is part of RAYTOWN C-2.
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