Southwood Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Raytown C-2 School District, Southwood Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 4.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 320; Southwood 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 4 with 68 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 42, against an average of 58 per grade. This year grade 5 has 31% more students than kindergarten (55 against 42). 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 Black students: 46.8% here and 50% across Raytown C-2. White students are next, at 20.5%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.4% across Raytown C-2 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 26.3% 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

With 26.9 full-time-equivalent teachers for 346 students, Southwood Elementary School has 12.9 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 346 students would have about 28.1 teachers, so Southwood Elementary School has 1.2 fewer.

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

Location

Southwood Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Spring Valley Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 97 other elementary schools, 20 of them within 5 miles.

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