M E Pearson Elem

Located at 310 N 11th St, in Kansas City, Kansas, M E Pearson Elem is a sizable elementary campus that instructs 606 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Kansas City. Enrollment runs roughly 94% larger than the state mean of about 313.

Kansas City runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 21,538 students. M E Pearson Elem is one of those campuses.

Demographically, M E Pearson Elem shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%); the rest breaks down as 8% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, M E Pearson Elem lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Wyandotte County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), M E Pearson Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.8%, the actual is 14.8%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wyandotte County shows median household earnings sit near $63,631, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Wyandotte County runs 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), of which M E Pearson Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: McKinley Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around M E Pearson Elem. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), M E Pearson Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. M E Pearson Elem's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 656 (now 606). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 75% to 81%.

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