NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MO

Best-Resourced Schools in Gladstone, MO

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6 public K-12 schools in Gladstone from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
2,949
Students
45.5/100
Avg Resource Index
13:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gladstone has more public-school enrollment than 28% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gladstone's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Gladstone's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 28-point gap between Oakwood Manor Elementary and Chapel Hill Elementary shows the range hidden by Gladstone's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 72%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
79th percentile

Antioch Middle accounts for 30.0% of all Gladstone public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gladstone-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gladstone school enrollment varies 7.9× across entities

Gladstone school enrollment ranges from 112 students (lowest) to 886 students (highest), a spread of 774 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gladstone operates one school district — a single-district system

Gladstone's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gladstone student-teacher ratio is 13.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Oakwood Manor Elementary 61
2. Early Education Center 60
3. Meadowbrook Elementary 46
4. Linden West Elementary 37
5. Antioch Middle 36
6. Chapel Hill Elementary 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gladstone

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Linden West Elementary 71.7/100
  2. 2 Meadowbrook Elementary 69.6/100
  3. 3 Chapel Hill Elementary 67.7/100
  4. 4 Antioch Middle 65.4/100
  5. 5 Oakwood Manor Elementary 62.8/100

What do families ask about schools in Gladstone?

Which Gladstone school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Oakwood Manor Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gladstone schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gladstone, MO? ▼

Gladstone has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,949 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.