Kelsey Norman Elementary School

Size

Kelsey Norman Elementary School is the 7th largest of Joplin Schools' 10 elementary schools; its 300 students are 3.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 398 students, so Kelsey Norman Elementary School is smaller 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 5 with 59 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 46, against an average of 50 per grade. This year grade 5 has 23% more students than kindergarten (59 against 48). 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 61.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Joplin Schools (65.6%). Two or more races students are next, at 16.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

63.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 66.2% across Joplin Schools and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 27.3% 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

Kelsey Norman Elementary School has 20.67 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 300 students would have about 24.4 teachers, so Kelsey Norman Elementary School has 3.7 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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Stapleton Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 9 elementary schools within 5 miles and 18 within 10 miles.

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