Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle

Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle, a mid-tier 6-8 campus in Kansas City, Missouri, part of EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL, enrolls 559 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Within EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL, which oversees 2 schools and 961 students, Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle shows that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 80.5%, a residual of +31.1 points.

In the broader community, Jackson County reports that 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), Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is one campus in the mix.

EWING MARION KAUFFMAN HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 26%: 759 students in 2018 compared to 559 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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