Schools · Kansas
Kansas, MO schools
Kansas’s public schools score above Missouri’s averages: 49% of students are proficient in reading against 45.3% statewide, and 96% of high schoolers graduate on time against 90.6%. Kids attend one of 41 schools through grade 12, then one of 40 high schools, one of 11 high schools and one of 11 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C
Kansas’s School Grade: C
The public schools Kansas’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 73% of Missouri’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresB+Graduation
Missouri school districts we grade (538)Better than 27%
Lower resultsHigher results
Missouri towns with similar household incomes (545)Better than 16%
High confidence. Built on 16,263 tested students and a graduating class of 1,501; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Missouri’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Missouri only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Missouri with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Kansas kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Above the state in reading
Reading (grades 12, North Kansas City 74)49%
State average 45.3%
Reading (grades PK–12, Kansas City 33)24%
State average 45.3%
Math (grades 12, North Kansas City 74)38%
State average 35.3%
Math (grades PK–12, Kansas City 33)12%
State average 35.3%
Graduation · class of 2020
96% graduate on time
Graduation rate
96%
MO: 90.6%
Graduating class
1,501
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Kansas
North Kansas City 74 School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 34 schools · 21,252 students
$14,811 per studentMO $14,569B+Kansas City 33 School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 33 schools · 15,079 students
$19,265 per studentMO $14,569DEach district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 202 schools in Kansas
Showing 1–30 of 202 schools
GUADALUPE CENTERS ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 801 students
D-CharterSHOAL CREEK ELEM.Elementary · Grades K–5 · 795 students
A+PublicM. L. KING ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 768 students
D-PublicGRACEMOR ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 684 students
C-PublicKIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMYElementary · Grades PK–8 · 665 students
DCharterKC INTERNATIONAL-WALLACEElementary · Grades PK–8 · 662 students
DCharterNORTHVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades K–5 · 656 students
APublicFRONTIER SCHOOL OF INNOVATIONElementary · Grades PK–5 · 645 students
DCharterBELL PRAIRIE ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 642 students
A+PublicMARTIN CITY ELEM.Elementary · Grades K–8 · 638 students
DPublicUNIVERSITY ACADEMY-LOWERElementary · Grades PK–5 · 609 students
DCharterFOX HILL ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades K–5 · 606 students
A-PublicFOREIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMYElementary · Grades PK–8 · 594 students
C-PublicROGERS ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 592 students
DPublicBROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 575 students
DCharterDAVIDSON ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 566 students
B-PublicWHITTIER ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 550 students
DPublicSOUTHEAST ELEM.Elementary · Grades K–5 · 548 students
B+PublicSUMMIT POINTE ELEM.Elementary · Grades K–5 · 534 students
A-PublicGARFIELD ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 531 students
DPublicKELLYBROOK ELEM SCHOOLElementary · Grades K–5 · 528 students
BPublicAcademie Lafayette Oak ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 520 students
B+CharterLIBERTY OAKS ELEM.Elementary · Grades K–5 · 496 students
A-PublicPRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 494 students
DPublicACADEMIE LAFAYETTE CHERRY ELEMElementary · Grades PK–5 · 492 students
CCharterB. BANNEKER ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–6 · 487 students
D-PublicCRESTVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 487 students
CPublicNASHUA ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 485 students
APublicTIFFANY RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHLElementary · Grades K–5 · 484 students
B-PublicHOPEWELL ELEMENTARYElementary · Grades K–5 · 483 students
B+PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.