Voy Spears Jr. Elementary School

Size

Of the 13 elementary schools in Blue Springs R-IV School District, Voy Spears Jr. Elementary School is the 3rd largest, with 3.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 459; Voy Spears Jr. 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 3 with 103 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 79, against an average of 91 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (99 against 83). 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: 71.6% here and 64.6% across Blue Springs R-IV. Black students are next, at 10.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

13.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.6% across Blue Springs R-IV and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 4.2% 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

With 35.33 full-time-equivalent teachers for 546 students, Voy Spears Jr. Elementary School has 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 546 students would have about 44.4 teachers, so Voy Spears Jr. Elementary School has 9.1 fewer.

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

Location

Voy Spears Jr. 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 William Southern Elementary School, 2.3 miles away in Independence 30 School District. Within 10 miles there are 80 other elementary schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

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