ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY

ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY is one of the one-room-style middle-grades schools in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, overseen by ALLEN VILLAGE, with 92 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 80% below the state mean of about 461.

ALLEN VILLAGE runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 384 students. ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder consists of 26% Black, 7% Asian, 4% White. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.8%; this one delivers 65.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows median household income runs about $68,577, 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), ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ALLEN VILLAGE PRIMARY ACADEMY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, members of the ALLEN VILLAGE JUNIOR ACADEMY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.