Turner Sixth Grade Academy

Set in Kansas City, Kansas, Turner Sixth Grade Academy is a cozy middle school, part of Turner-Kansas City. It enrolls 299 students across grade 6. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Turner Sixth Grade Academy sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Turner-Kansas City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,865 students; Turner Sixth Grade Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Turner Sixth Grade Academy records that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 25% White, 14% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Turner Sixth Grade Academy records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Turner Sixth Grade Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.4%, the actual is 21.1%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wyandotte County indicate median household income runs about $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%. Across Wyandotte County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), Turner Sixth Grade Academy is one campus in the mix.

Lindbergh Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Turner Sixth Grade Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 17.1%.

Turner Sixth Grade Academy operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Turner Sixth Grade Academy's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 326 (now 299). White enrollment moved from 37% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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