Cedar Creek Elementary School

Size

Cedar Creek Elementary School is the 5th largest of Lee's Summit R-VII School District's 18 elementary schools; its 487 students are 2.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 339 students, so Cedar Creek Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 2 with 94 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 73, against an average of 81 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% fewer students than kindergarten (73 against 85). 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

White students are the largest group, at 66.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Lee's Summit R-VII (64.2%). Black students are next, at 12.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

16.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 24.4% across Lee's Summit R-VII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 7.8% 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

Cedar Creek Elementary School has 39.66 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 487 students would have about 39.6 teachers, so Cedar Creek Elementary School has about as many as that.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, small, which means it is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Longview Farm Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. There are 17 elementary schools within 5 miles and 65 within 10 miles.

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