WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH

WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH is one of the sprawling secondary schools in INDEPENDENCE, Missouri, run under INDEPENDENCE 30, with 1,417 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 501 students each, so WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH sits 183% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 29 schools in INDEPENDENCE 30 (14,272 students total), WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH shows that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 15% Black, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH lists 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.4%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jackson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 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 CHRISMAN HIGH is one campus in the mix.

OTT ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

WILLIAM CHRISMAN HIGH operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 1,503 students in 2018 compared to 1,417 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 62% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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