Academie Lafayette Oak Elem

Academie Lafayette Oak Elem is a heavily attended elementary campus in Kansas City, Missouri, run under ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE. The school works with 520 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so Academie Lafayette Oak Elem sits 65% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE (1,425 students total), Academie Lafayette Oak Elem accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Academie Lafayette Oak Elem reports that White students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 20% Black, 11% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 27% 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 lower than Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Academie Lafayette Oak Elem tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), Academie Lafayette Oak Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: UNIVERSITY ACADEMY-MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Academie Lafayette Oak Elem. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Academie Lafayette Oak Elem ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.9%.

The school occupies an urban site. Academie Lafayette Oak Elem is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Academie Lafayette Oak Elem has increased 7%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 520 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 67% to 60%.

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