ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS

As a micro-enrollment high school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS instructs 118 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 76% below typical.

Within ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE, which oversees 4 schools and 1,425 students, ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 18% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 50.5%; ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS posts 76.1%, +25.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) reports that median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Academie Lafayette Armour IMS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 56.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. As a public charter, ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ARMOUR IHS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.