ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS

ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS is an elementary school of intimate scale in Kansas City, Missouri, run under ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS, teacheing 244 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS sits inside ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 12% White, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.2%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household earnings sit near $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS is one campus in the mix.

JOHN T. HARTMAN ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 56.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site. ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS 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 ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS has climbed 18%, going from 207 students in 2018 to 244 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 84% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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