Enrollment
243
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 313
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KANSAS CITY·NCES 200795001778
McKinley Elementary School
1301 Armstrong, Kansas City, KS 66102 · (913) 627-7350 · Wyandotte County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL243 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% 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.
- C+Beats 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
11.4:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 13.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
225 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 | 39 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (45).
Student demographics
40%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
26.5%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
26.2%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 | 26.5% | 26.2% |
| 2023-24 | 11.8% | 19.8% |
% 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
21.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.9%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% 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 McKinley Elementary School
McKinley Elementary School's state test result (21.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| McKinley Elementary School this school | 243 | 92.6% | 21.3% |
| Mark Twain Elem Kansas City | 222 | 92.3% | 25.0% |
| New Stanley Elem Kansas City | 251 | 92.0% | 16.9% |
| Alta Brown Elem Garden City | 336 | 86.9% | 23.2% |
| Gertrude Walker Elem Garden City | 186 | 90.9% | 26.3% |
| Eugene Ware Elem Kansas City | 242 | 90.9% | 15.6% |
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 McKinley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Wyandotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #562 of 625 | #20 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #495 of 625 | #12 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #573 of 625 | #20 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 243 | #474 of 714 | #31 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #65 of 539 | #4 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #330 of 540 | #30 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.6% | #27 of 658 | #6 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.2% | #32 of 377 | #3 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
243
-67 (-22%) vs 2020
+27% since 2010-11, when it was 192
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 243 | 21.3 | 11.4:1 | 93% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 247 | 24.1 | 10.3:1 | 96% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 265 | 27.1 | 9.8:1 | 95% (251) |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 21 | 14.8:1 | 95% (294) |
| 2017-18 | 348 | 22.1 | 15.8:1 | 94% (326) |
| 2015-16 | 301 | 18 | 16.7:1 | 82% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 192 | 15 | 12.8:1 | 94% (180) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for McKinley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (348 to 243); teachers down 4% (22.1 to 21.3).
About McKinley Elementary School
In Kansas City, Kansas, McKinley Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school. It teaches 243 students in kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Kansas have about 313 students on average; enrollment here is 22% lower.
A total of 43 schools make up Kansas City, with 21,538 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at McKinley Elementary School are Hispanic (76%). The rest of enrollment is 12% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 3% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Wyandotte County's population at about 34%. The diversity index for McKinley Elementary School is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 21.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.4 students per teacher. Compared with the 13.2:1 average for elementary schools in Kansas, this school's ratio is lower. Roughly 93% of students at McKinley Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Wyandotte County, the average eligibility rate is 75%.
Among Kansas public elementary schools, McKinley Elementary School outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 17.9% for a school in Kansas with McKinley Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. McKinley Elementary School posts 21.3%.
Wyandotte County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $63,631 a year, roughly 21% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Wyandotte County number 62, with about 30,713 students.
Measured in a straight line, School for Blind Elementary is about 0.3 miles from McKinley Elementary School. The five-mile area around McKinley Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 20.3%, lower than McKinley Elementary School's 21.3%.
McKinley Elementary School is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
The school's student count decreased 22% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 11.4 students per teacher, compared with 14.8 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
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- 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
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- 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 McKinley Elementary schools
55 other US public schools in 19 states are named McKinley Elementary. McKinley Elementary School is the 48th largest of the 56.
- McKinley ElemAbilene, KS · 196 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 917 students
- McKinley ElementaryStockton, CA · 705 students
- McKinley ElementaryFresno, CA · 671 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolBeaverton, OR · 666 students
Nearby schools
- School for Blind Elementary0.3 mi · 11
- School for Blind High0.3 mi · 27
- M E Pearson Elem0.5 mi · 606
- Mark Twain Elem0.6 mi · 222
- Douglass Elem0.7 mi · 285
- Wyandotte High0.7 mi · 1,903
Frequently asked questions
About McKinley Elementary SchoolHow large is McKinley Elementary School?
McKinley Elementary School enrolls approximately 243 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does McKinley Elementary School serve?
McKinley Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at McKinley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at McKinley Elementary School is approximately 11.4:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at McKinley Elementary School?
At McKinley Elementary School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 76% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is McKinley Elementary School public or private?
McKinley Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kansas City.
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