EAST HIGH SCHOOL

Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, EAST HIGH SCHOOL is a sprawling secondary school, run under KANSAS CITY 33. It teaches 1,155 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 131% larger than the state mean of about 501.

Across the 31 schools in KANSAS CITY 33 (15,079 students total), EAST HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, EAST HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 34% Black, 6% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at EAST HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, EAST HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $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), EAST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREP MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST HIGH SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 1,145 students in 2018 to 1,155 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 38% to 54%.

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