WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM.

WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. is a high-enrollment elementary school in WHITEMAN AFB, Missouri, overseen by KNOB NOSTER R-VIII. The school instructs 602 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 91% above the state mean of about 315.

KNOB NOSTER R-VIII comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,007 students; WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 58.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,272 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,058 students), of which WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. is one.

KNOB NOSTER HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHITEMAN A.F.B. ELEM. has climbed 68%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 602 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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