Hawthorn Hill Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in Lee's Summit R-VII School District, Hawthorn Hill Elementary School is the 6th largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.1 miles away and have a median of 374 students, so Hawthorn Hill 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 5 with 94 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 60, against an average of 74 per grade. This year grade 5 has 34% more students than kindergarten (94 against 70). 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 68% of enrollment, a higher share than across Lee's Summit R-VII (64.2%). Black students are next, at 11.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

13.7% 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. 4.1% 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

Hawthorn Hill Elementary School has 25.85 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 444 students would have about 36.1 teachers, so Hawthorn Hill Elementary School has 10.2 fewer.

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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Summit Pointe Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 12 elementary schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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