Highland Park Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in Lee's Summit R-VII School District, Highland Park Elementary School is the 10th largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 429; Highland Park 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 90 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 57, against an average of 68 per grade. This year grade 5 has 50% more students than kindergarten (90 against 60). 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: 77.6% here and 64.2% across Lee's Summit R-VII. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

11.1% of its students are eligible 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. 2.5% 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 30.64 full-time-equivalent teachers for 407 students, Highland Park Elementary School has 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 407 students would have about 33.1 teachers, so Highland Park Elementary School has 2.5 fewer.

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

Location

Highland Park Elementary School is in an urbanized area of fewer than 100,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, small. The nearest other elementary school is Richardson Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 41 other elementary schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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