Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest

Located at 106 S HILLCREST RD, in BELTON, Missouri, Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest is a sizable K-5 school that teaches 486 students (grades K through 6), operated by BELTON 124. That puts it 54% bigger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest is one of 8 schools operated by BELTON 124, a district that educates 4,230 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest lists that White students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder looks like 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Black. By comparison, Cass County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Cass County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of -10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Cass County put median household income runs about $87,535, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cass County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,093 students), Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest is one campus in the mix.

GRACE EARLY CHILD. ED. CTR. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest. On composite proficiency, Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.7%.

Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest has edged down 3%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

On this page, members of the Wilckens STEAM Acad @Hillcrest community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.