HILLTOP SCHOOL
LEE'S SUMMIT · MO · LEE'S SUMMIT R-VII · Public · K-12 combined
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LAKEVIEW WOODS SCHOOL → LEE'S SUMMIT NORTH HIGH → HERNDON CAREER CTR. → Lees Summit Academy → RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH → RAYTOWN EDUCATION CTR. → LANGSFORD HOUSE → MILLER PARK CENTER →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How HILLTOP SCHOOL compares for families
What families should know about HILLTOP SCHOOL.
- ▸ LocallyMO sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: LAKEVIEW WOODS SCHOOL, LEE'S SUMMIT NORTH HIGH, HERNDON CAREER CTR. and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +21.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 25 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAKEVIEW WOODS SCHOOL LEE'S SUMMIT |
Public | 0.3 | 15 | — |
| LEE'S SUMMIT NORTH HIGH LEE'S SUMMIT |
Public | 3.1 | 1,940 | -2.0% |
| HERNDON CAREER CTR. RAYTOWN |
Public | 3.5 | — | — |
| Lees Summit Academy Lees Summit |
Private | 3.5 | 87 | +6.1% |
| RAYTOWN SOUTH SR. HIGH RAYTOWN |
Public | 3.6 | 1,089 | -5.1% |
| RAYTOWN EDUCATION CTR. RAYTOWN |
Public | 4.0 | — | — |
| LANGSFORD HOUSE LEE'S SUMMIT |
Public | 4.1 | 8 | — |
| MILLER PARK CENTER LEE'S SUMMIT |
Public | 4.6 | — | — |