Lindbergh Elem

As a small elementary school in Kansas City, Kansas, Lindbergh Elem educates 216 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Kansas City. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Lindbergh Elem sits 31% below that benchmark.

Within Kansas City, which oversees 43 schools and 21,538 students, Lindbergh Elem is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Lindbergh Elem records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 19% Black, 14% Asian, 11% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lindbergh Elem has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. 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 noticeably above Wyandotte County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lindbergh Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.7%, the actual is 16.3%, a residual of -2.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Wyandotte County reports that 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), Lindbergh Elem is one campus in the mix.

Turner Sixth Grade Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lindbergh Elem. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lindbergh Elem at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 16.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 248 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 37% to 51% across the same window.

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