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FORT OSAGE R-I

Independence, Missouri · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

4,718
Students enrolled
11
Public schools
357
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.2:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 133
  • Kindergarten 311
  • Grade 1 330
  • Grade 2 322
  • Grade 3 348
  • Grade 4 341
  • Grade 5 369
  • Grade 6 344
  • Grade 7 331
  • Grade 8 344
  • Grade 9 361
  • Grade 10 434
  • Grade 11 366
  • Grade 12 384

By race/ethnicity

  • White 66%
  • Hispanic/Latino 14%
  • Black or African American 9%
  • Two or more races 9%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 2%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

51% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 2,385 of 4,718 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 43%
  • Reduced-price lunch 8%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$13,905 spent per student on day-to-day operations Missouri median: $13,607 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,255
  • Support services $5,887
  • Other (food service, etc.) $763

Where the money comes from

  • Local 55%
  • State 37%
  • Federal 8%

Total revenue $78.1 milliontotal spending $77.4 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: FringeStudents: 84% rural, 16% suburb

Total staff (FTE)

796

District office

25102 E. US 24 Highway, Independence MO 64056

County

Jackson County

Official website

NCES District ID

2912290

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About FORT OSAGE R-I

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

On August 9, 1949, Jackson County voters approved a county-wide reorganization plan whereby the 83 districts were divided into 15 units. The district we know today was created from 16 rural districts and the Buckner and Levasy High School districts. The 16 rural schools had an enrollment of 246 children, Buckner had 238, and Levasy had 88. On August 30, 1949, a special school election was held to elect six directors for Reorganized District No. 1 of Jackson County (Fort Osage School District's name). The first recorded meeting was held in the First State Bank of Buckner on September 2, 1949.
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