The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in Science. The lowest is 47% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Hopewell Elementary
Hopewell Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Park Hill School District, located north of the Missouri River in the part of Kansas City that falls in Platte County. This is not the Kansas City Public Schools district; it is a suburban district that covers a large, growing area of the Northland. Hopewell is one of more than ten elementary schools in Park Hill, and the district is opening a new elementary school for the 2025-2026 school year, so attendance boundaries have recently been or are about to be adjusted.
The school has a sizable enrollment for an elementary school serving those grades. The student body is majority white, with a substantial Black or African American population, a smaller Hispanic component, and a modest share of students identifying with two or more races. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which gives a sense of the economic mix at the school. Data on the share of students with disabilities and English learner status were not available in the source materials, so a parent may want to check those directly with the school if those support services are a factor in their decision.
On the Missouri Assessment Program tests from the 2024-2025 school year, the picture is mixed and varies by grade. In third-grade math, just under a third of students scored proficient or advanced, which is below what many families would hope to see. Fourth-grade math was stronger, with around half of students meeting that bar, and fifth-grade math was in the same neighborhood, a bit over half proficient. In English language arts, third-grade proficiency was below the midpoint, and fifth-grade ELA was the strongest tested subject, with well over half of students scoring proficient or advanced. Fourth-grade ELA results were suppressed in the data reported here, so no figure is available for that grade. In fifth-grade science, about half of students were proficient or advanced. Taken together, the overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades places Hopewell below the midpoint among the four school districts in Platte County. This is a moderate performance position within the county, not near the bottom but not at the top either.
The housing context in the area served by the school reflects a higher-cost market. Home values are above the state average, and rents are also elevated. The broader economic context is one where a national thirty-year mortgage rate in the mid-six-percent range and rising rental costs shape affordability. For families considering a move into the attendance zone, the cost of housing is a material factor.
Because Hopewell is an elementary school, it does not have a graduation rate to report. It is a straight neighborhood school in a regular public school district, not a charter or magnet. Program offerings beyond the standard elementary curriculum were not detailed in the available data. The school is located on NW Waukomis Drive, near commercial corridors in the Northland. The city of Kansas City is a very large, sprawling urban center, but the school sits in the suburban-style, lower-density part of the city that characterizes much of Platte County. Parents will find a school that has a clear economic diversity, a student body that is not monolithic, and academic results that are strongest in the upper elementary grades for reading and in fourth-grade math, with third grade as the most challenging year in the tested data.
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