Bridges/Wyandot Academy

Bridges/Wyandot Academy, an one-room-style K-12 campus in Kansas City, Kansas, one of the schools within Kansas City, caters to 15 students, covering grades K through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 353 students each, so Bridges/Wyandot Academy sits 96% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 43 schools in Kansas City (21,538 students total), Bridges/Wyandot Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Bridges/Wyandot Academy records that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 47% White. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 4.5:1. The state averages around 49.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wyandotte County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Wyandotte County put the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bridges/Wyandot Academy is one of 62 public schools in Wyandotte County (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students).

The closest other public school is Bertram Caruthers Elem, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bridges/Wyandot Academy.

Bridges/Wyandot Academy operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 52%: 31 students in 2018 compared to 15 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 32% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 2.6:1 in 2018 to 4.5:1 today.

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