West Park Elementary School

Set in Kansas City, Kansas, West Park Elementary School is a roomy primary school, part of Kansas City. It educates 534 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 313 students per school, that is 71% bigger than typical.

Kansas City comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,538 students; West Park Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, West Park Elementary School shows that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 27% Black, 7% Asian, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, West Park Elementary School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting West Park Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at West Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, West Park Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.1%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wyandotte County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Wyandotte County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), West Park Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Eugene Ware Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, West Park Elementary School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 15.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

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