WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY

WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY operates as a tight-knit primary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, overseen by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. Current enrollment sits at 264 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

NORTH KANSAS CITY 74 comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 21,252 students; WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Clay County (around 35%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Clay County put the typical household earns roughly $88,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY is one of 80 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students).

The closest other public school is EASTGATE 6TH GRADE CENTER, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WINNWOOD ELEMENTARY has shrank 7%, going from 284 students in 2018 to 264 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 49% to 30% over that span.

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