New Stanley Elem

Located at 3604 Metropolitan, in Kansas City, Kansas, New Stanley Elem is a cozy elementary campus that teaches 251 students (grades K through 5), run under Kansas City.

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

On demographics, New Stanley Elem shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 10% Black, 10% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, New Stanley Elem has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting New Stanley Elem tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wyandotte County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, New Stanley Elem tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wyandotte County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Wyandotte County runs 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), of which New Stanley Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Emerson Elem, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, New Stanley Elem comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 18.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 251 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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