Royal Heights Elementary School

Size

Royal Heights Elementary School is the 8th largest of Joplin Schools' 10 elementary schools; its 277 students are 3.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 273 students, so Royal Heights 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 kindergarten with 54 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 16, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% fewer students than kindergarten (43 against 54). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 16 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 64.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Joplin Schools (65.6%). Hispanic students are next, at 23.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70.4% 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. 26.4% 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

Royal Heights Elementary School has 20.16 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 277 students would have about 22.5 teachers, so Royal Heights Elementary School has 2.3 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 Dover Hill Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 14 elementary schools within 5 miles and 21 within 10 miles.

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