CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET

CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET is one of the average-sized elementary schools in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, run under CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS, with 355 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,003 students; CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET is among them.

In terms of who attends, CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET lists that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 16% White, 8% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the income-and-resources front, CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 62.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is CROSSROADS PREPARATORY ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 51.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site. CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 422 (now 355). White enrollment moved from 40% to 16% across the same window.

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