Eugene Ware Elem

Eugene Ware Elem is a tight-knit primary school in Kansas City, Kansas, run under Kansas City. The school instructs 242 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Eugene Ware Elem sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Kansas City comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,538 students; Eugene Ware Elem is among them.

Demographically, Eugene Ware Elem reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Eugene Ware Elem has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Wyandotte County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Eugene Ware Elem sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.6%; this one delivers 15.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wyandotte County indicate median household income runs about $63,631, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Wyandotte County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), Eugene Ware Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: West Park Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eugene Ware Elem. On composite proficiency, Eugene Ware Elem comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 283 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 52% to 62%.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.