Prekindergarten · Regular · Grades PK
Hanthorn Early Education, Independence, MO
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 180
- Teachers (FTE)
- 14.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.9
- Grades
- PK
This school's ratio is 1.8 lower than the district figure of 14.7. The Missouri average across schools is 13.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1511 Kings Hwy, Independence, MO 64055
- Phone
- (816)521-5485
- District
- Independence 30 School District
- County
- Jackson County
- Level
- Prekindergarten
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 291548001485
School meals
- Free lunch
- 173
- Reduced-price lunch
- 1
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 17496.7% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 76Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other prekindergarten schools in Independence 30 School District
- Sunshine Center 106 students
Prekindergarten schools elsewhere in Independence
- Early Childhood Ctr. Fort Osage R-I School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.