Alexander Doniphan Elementary School

Size

Alexander Doniphan Elementary School is the 7th largest of Liberty 53 School District's 11 elementary schools; its 336 students are 2.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 387; Alexander Doniphan Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 63 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 44, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 5 has 43% more students than kindergarten (63 against 44). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 75.6% here and 73.4% across Liberty 53. Hispanic students are next, at 10.4%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

25.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 23.8% across Liberty 53 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 8.6% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 31.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 336 students, Alexander Doniphan Elementary School has 10.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 336 students would have about 27.3 teachers, so Alexander Doniphan Elementary School has 4.1 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

Alexander Doniphan Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Epic Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 57 other elementary schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.