Enrollment
216
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KANSAS CITY·NCES 200795001430
Lindbergh Elem
641 N 57th St, Kansas City, KS 66102 · (913) 627-5150 · Wyandotte County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL216 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Kansas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
196 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 35 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 34 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (34).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
13.4%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
10.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.4% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 21.3% | 14.3% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lindbergh Elem
Lindbergh Elem's state test result (16.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindbergh Elem this school | 216 | 90.7% | 16.3% |
| Gertrude Walker Elem Garden City | 186 | 90.9% | 26.3% |
| Eugene Ware Elem Kansas City | 242 | 90.9% | 15.6% |
| Hazel Grove Elem Kansas City | 537 | 87.0% | 25.4% |
| Stony Point North Kansas City | 300 | 85.3% | 24.6% |
| Mark Twain Elem Kansas City | 222 | 92.3% | 25.0% |
Matched among Kansas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lindbergh Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Wyandotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.3% | #598 of 625 | #28 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #604 of 625 | #32 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.4% | #625 of 625 | #36 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 216 | #520 of 714 | #35 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #118 of 539 | #5 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.1% | #73 of 540 | #9 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #47 of 658 | #13 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #197 of 377 | #19 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
216
-7 (-3%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 280
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 12.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 216 | 17.9 | 12.1:1 | 91% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 178 | 13.8 | 12.9:1 | 83% (147) |
| 2022-23 | 166 | 18.4 | 9.0:1 | 92% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 223 | 18 | 12.4:1 | 86% (192) |
| 2017-18 | 248 | 21.6 | 11.5:1 | 83% (207) |
| 2015-16 | 244 | 14 | 17.4:1 | 72% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 166 | 16 | 10.4:1 | 91% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 244 | 14 | 17.4:1 | 80% (194) |
| 1990-91 | 280 | 15 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lindbergh Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (248 to 216); teachers down 17% (21.6 to 17.9).
About Lindbergh Elem
Lindbergh Elem is the name of a small elementary school in Kansas City, Kansas. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 216 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Kansas enroll about 313 students on average.
Kansas City is the district for Lindbergh Elem. It has 43 schools and 21,538 students.
Of every 100 students at Lindbergh Elem, about 51 are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 19% Black, 14% Asian, 11% White, and 5% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 34%. The diversity index for Lindbergh Elem is 67%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Lindbergh Elem has 17.9 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Kansas is 13.2:1. At Lindbergh Elem, 91% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Wyandotte County averages 75%, lower than here.
Lindbergh Elem earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 5% of Kansas public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Lindbergh Elem is 2.4 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Kansas schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Wyandotte County show that median household income comes to about $63,631, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Wyandotte County counts 62 public schools with about 30,713 students.
Turner Sixth Grade Academy, about 1.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Lindbergh Elem ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 216, from 223 in 2020-21.
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Wyandotte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
167,654
Census ACS
Median income
$63,631
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
62
30,713 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kansas City
- Wyandotte HighHigh · 1,903 students
- Silver City ElemElementary · 1,495 students
- J C Harmon HighHigh · 1,285 students
- Washington HighHigh · 1,180 students
- Sumner Academy of Arts & ScienceHigh · 1,045 students
- F L Schlagle HighHigh · 841 students
Other schools in Kansas City
- Wyandotte HighHigh · 1,903 students
- Silver City ElemElementary · 1,495 students
- J C Harmon HighHigh · 1,285 students
- Washington HighHigh · 1,180 students
- Turner HighHigh · 1,147 students
- Sumner Academy of Arts & ScienceHigh · 1,045 students
Other Lindbergh Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 9 states are named Lindbergh Elementary. Lindbergh Elem is the 8th largest of the 9.
- Lindbergh Elementary SchoolPALISADES PARK, NJ · 762 students
- Lindbergh ElementaryLynwood, CA · 552 students
- Lindbergh Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 492 students
- LINDBERGH ELEMENTARYLITTLE FALLS, MN · 473 students
- Lindbergh Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 442 students
Nearby schools
- Turner Sixth Grade Academy1.2 mi · 299
- Eugene Ware Elem1.3 mi · 242
- Gloria Willis Middle School1.4 mi · 737
- F L Schlagle High1.5 mi · 841
- Hazel Grove Elem2.0 mi · 537
- West Park Elementary School2.2 mi · 534
Frequently asked questions
About Lindbergh ElemWhat is the total enrollment at Lindbergh Elem?
Lindbergh Elem enrolls approximately 216 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Lindbergh Elem serve?
Lindbergh Elem serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Lindbergh Elem have?
Lindbergh Elem employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lindbergh Elem?
At Lindbergh Elem, the student body is approximately 11% White, 51% Hispanic, 19% Black, 14% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Lindbergh Elem public or private?
Lindbergh Elem is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kansas City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.