ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL

ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the very small four-year high schools in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within ALLEN VILLAGE, with 130 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% below the state mean of about 501.

ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by ALLEN VILLAGE, a district that teaches 384 students overall.

On demographics, ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.7%; this one delivers 62.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jackson County) logs that median household earnings sit near $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is ALLEN VILLAGE ELEMENTARY ACADE, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 61.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALLEN VILLAGE HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 30%, going from 186 students in 2018 to 130 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 54% to 72%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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