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Black student results in Blue Springs R-iv

Across 15 schools in Blue Springs R-iv, 44.9% of Black students meet proficient or advanced. That is 22.8 points above the Missouri average for Black students.

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63.7%
All students
44.9%
Black
59.4%
Hispanic
68.2%
White
65.5%
Asian

Average across the 15 schools in Blue Springs R-iv with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 12 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Franklin Smith Elementary reports 74% of Black students meeting the standard. Thomas J. Ultican Elementary, in the same district, reports 27%. That is a 47-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in Blue Springs R-iv

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient or advanced. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Franklin Smith Elementary 70.1% 74% 66.5% 70.1%
Chapel Lakes Elementary 75.8% 69.9% 78.4%
James Walker Elementary 79% 69.1% 83.2% 81.4%
Voy Spears, Junior Elementary 78.8% 66.6% 77.2% 81%
William Yates Elementary 74.2% 55.2% 70.5% 82.4%
James Lewis Elementary 64.2% 39.2% 70.3%
Delta Woods Middle School 63.4% 38.2% 50.7% 70.2% 63.5%
Lucy Franklin Elementary 65.3% 37.6% 79.3% 68.5%
Brittany Hill Middle School 59.1% 35.6% 56.2% 64.4%
Blue Springs South High School 64% 35.2% 51% 70.1% 85.6%
Blue Springs High School 56% 34.1% 51.3% 61% 68.4%
Moreland Ridge Middle School 54.2% 32.2% 46.4% 60.3%
Cordill-mason Elementary 57.6% 31.1% 55.5% 62.7%
Paul Kinder Middle School 51% 27.9% 45.9% 56.8% 44.7%
Thomas J. Ultican Elementary 42.6% 27% 38.2% 46.1%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. DESE suppresses results for groups with too few students tested. Schools without a reportable Black student result are excluded rather than shown as zero — 700 of Missouri's schools have reportable data. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, Missouri figures should not be compared against another state's.

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