Summit Pointe Elementary School

Size

Of the 18 elementary schools in Lee's Summit R-VII School District, Summit Pointe Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 396 students, so Summit Pointe Elementary School is larger 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 1 with 102 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 64, against an average of 89 per grade. This year grade 5 has 42% more students than kindergarten (91 against 64). 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 63.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Lee's Summit R-VII (64.2%). Black students are next, at 15.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

12% 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. 3.2% 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

Summit Pointe Elementary School has 32.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 534 students would have about 43.4 teachers, so Summit Pointe Elementary School has 10.5 fewer.

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

Location

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 Hawthorn Hill Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 14 elementary schools within 5 miles and 45 within 10 miles.

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