Enrollment
222
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KANSAS CITY·NCES 200795001401
Mark Twain Elem
2300 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS 66102 · (913) 627-5200 · Wyandotte County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL222 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% 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.
- BBeats 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
12.3:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
205 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 | 27 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (33).
Student demographics
50%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
29.2%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
21.8%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 | 29.2% | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 19.3% | 18.2% |
% 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
25.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.0%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 Mark Twain Elem
Mark Twain Elem's state test result (25.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain Elem this school | 222 | 92.3% | 25.0% |
| Eugene Ware Elem Kansas City | 242 | 90.9% | 15.6% |
| Gertrude Walker Elem Garden City | 186 | 90.9% | 26.3% |
| McKinley Elementary School Kansas City | 243 | 92.6% | 21.3% |
| Douglass Elem Kansas City | 285 | 83.5% | 11.9% |
| Thomas A Edison Elem Kansas City | 244 | 86.9% | 23.1% |
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 Mark Twain Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Wyandotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #536 of 625 | #13 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #535 of 625 | #17 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.2% | #555 of 625 | #17 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 222 | #508 of 714 | #34 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #147 of 539 | #8 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.0% | #240 of 540 | #27 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.3% | #32 of 658 | #9 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.3% | #62 of 377 | #6 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
222
-42 (-16%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 156
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 222 | 18 | 12.3:1 | 92% (205) |
| 2023-24 | 220 | 18.2 | 12.1:1 | 90% (197) |
| 2022-23 | 217 | 20.2 | 10.7:1 | 89% (193) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 19 | 13.9:1 | 94% (248) |
| 2017-18 | 297 | 25.6 | 11.6:1 | 92% (273) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 17 | 17.0:1 | 88% (253) |
| 2010-11 | 213 | 13 | 16.4:1 | 97% (206) |
| 2000-01 | 169 | 10 | 16.9:1 | 83% (141) |
| 1990-91 | 156 | 10 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mark Twain Elem.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (297 to 222); teachers down 30% (25.6 to 18).
About Mark Twain Elem
Mark Twain Elem is a low-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in Kansas City, Kansas. The school has 222 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Kansas have about 313 students on average; enrollment here is 29% lower.
Kansas City (43 schools, 21,538 students) runs Mark Twain Elem.
More than half of enrollment at Mark Twain Elem is Hispanic: 68%. The next largest groups are 17% Black, 6% White, 6% Asian, and 2% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 34 points above the 34% share among Wyandotte County residents. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at Mark Twain Elem are from different groups.
There are 18 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.3:1. Across elementary schools in Kansas, the average ratio is 13.2:1. Of all students at Mark Twain Elem, 92% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Wyandotte County, the average is 75%.
Among Kansas public elementary schools, Mark Twain Elem outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Mark Twain Elem's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (25.0%) and its predicted rate (18.0%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools.
The county, Wyandotte County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $63,631 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Wyandotte County has 62 public schools with about 30,713 students, including Mark Twain Elem.
Wyandotte High is about 0.1 miles from Mark Twain Elem, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Mark Twain Elem ranks 1st on proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school shrank from 264 students in 2020-21 to 222 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 13.9:1 in 2020-21 to 12.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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
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- Sumner Academy of Arts & ScienceHigh · 1,045 students
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- Mark Twain Elementary SchoolALVIN, TX · 634 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryLawndale, CA · 585 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryPASCO, WA · 579 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryKirkland, WA · 550 students
Nearby schools
- Wyandotte High0.1 mi · 1,903
- Chelsea Elem0.6 mi · 557
- McKinley Elementary School0.6 mi · 243
- Frances Willard Elem0.8 mi · 434
- School for Blind Elementary0.9 mi · 11
- School for Blind High0.9 mi · 27
Frequently asked questions
About Mark Twain ElemHow large is Mark Twain Elem?
Mark Twain Elem enrolls approximately 222 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Mark Twain Elem serve?
Mark Twain Elem serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mark Twain Elem?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mark Twain Elem is approximately 12.3:1 (18 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mark Twain Elem?
At Mark Twain Elem, the student body is approximately 6% White, 68% Hispanic, 17% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Mark Twain Elem public or private?
Mark Twain 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.