WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM.

WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. is a substantial primary school in BLUE SPRINGS, Missouri, part of BLUE SPRINGS R-IV. The school caters to 529 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 68% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

Across the 20 schools in BLUE SPRINGS R-IV (14,657 students total), WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. lists that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. is in the bottom 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 50.7%; WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. posts 29.4%, -21.3 points below that line.

In the broader community, Jackson County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

BLUE SPRINGS SOUTH HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM BRYANT ELEM. at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 42%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 69% across the same window.

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