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Enrollment
559
Middle
DISTRICT 481 · STATE 461
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL·NCES 290059703195
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle
6401 Paseo Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64131 · (816) 268-5660 · Jackson County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Missouri public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Missouri public middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
559 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 119 | 21% |
| Grade 6 | 164 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 138 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 138 | 25% |
Student demographics
26%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 52% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle→EWING MARION KAUFFMAN HIGH
Based on grade levels within EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
34.3%
MO avg 44.9% . +5.8pp since 2021
Math
48.2%
MO avg 43.8% . +16.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.4% | 22.9% | 44.1% | 21.4% |
| Math | 17.3% | 30.9% | 32.5% | 19.1% |
Share of tested students at each MAP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.3% | 48.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.7% | 52.4% |
| 2022-23 | 34.2% | 46.9% |
| 2021-22 | 28.5% | 31.4% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Missouri's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle's state test result (39.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle this school | 559 | 100.0% | 39.2% |
| NMS @ Lucas Crossing ST LOUIS | 620 | 99.5% | 8.2% |
| BRITTANY WOODS UNIVERSITY CITY | 557 | 100.0% | 22.5% |
| CROSS KEYS MIDDLE FLORISSANT | 608 | 100.0% | 13.1% |
| COMPTON-DREW ILC MIDDLE ST LOUIS | 419 | 100.0% | 10.1% |
| NORTH MIDDLE FLORISSANT | 702 | 100.0% | 17.0% |
Matched among Missouri middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #214 of 379 | #15 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #148 of 380 ▼ 50 | #14 of 36 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #267 of 380 ▼ 80 | #20 of 36 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.3pp | #25 of 364 | #1 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #138 of 397 | #19 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #10 of 321 | #4 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.6% | #201 of 321 | #31 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #9 of 379 | #4 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #22 of 224 | #3 of 22 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
559
-217 (-28%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 11.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 559 | 57 | 9.8:1 | 100% (559) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 48.5 | 10.5:1 | 81% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 566 | 50.3 | 11.3:1 | 74% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 776 | 65 | 11.9:1 | 81% (627) |
| 2017-18 | 759 | 64.4 | 11.8:1 | 80% (610) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 55 | 11.6:1 | 87% (556) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (759 to 559); teachers down 11% (64.4 to 57).
About Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle
This page covers Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle, a medium-sized middle-grades school in Kansas City, Missouri. Students in grades 5 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 559 students. The average among middle schools in Missouri is roughly 461 students; this school is 21% larger than that.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is one school in EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL, a system of 2 schools with 961 students.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle's enrollment is 86% Black. The remaining shares are 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% White. Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school's share is higher. Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle's diversity index is 26%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 9.8:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Missouri. About 100% of students, or 559, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 60% average among public schools in Jackson County.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 75% of Missouri public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After accounting for student poverty, Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is in the top 10% of Missouri schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 39.2% is 16.8 points above the 22.4% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Among Jackson County residents, the median household income is $68,577, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle, Jackson County has 243 other public schools.
The closest public school to Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is EWING MARION KAUFFMAN HIGH, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 39.2% is below the 52.6% average for nearby schools.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is coded as City: Large in federal locale data. Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is one of the charter schools in Missouri.
Enrollment declined 28% from its 2020-21 level of 776. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.9:1 to 9.8:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
719,976
Census ACS
Median income
$68,577
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
244
105,714 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN HIGHHigh · 402 students
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- NORTH KANSAS CITY HIGHHigh · 1,719 students
- RUSKIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,299 students
- WINNETONKA HIGHHigh · 1,238 students
Nearby schools
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN HIGH0.0 mi · 402
- BROOKSIDE CHARTER ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 575
- BROOKSIDE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHL0.2 mi · 225
- HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.3 mi · 318
- UNIVERSITY ACADEMY-UPPER0.8 mi · 237
- UNIVERSITY ACADEMY-MIDDLE0.8 mi · 265
Frequently asked questions
About Ewing Marion Kauffman MiddleHow large is Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle?
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle enrolls approximately 559 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle serve?
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle?
Approximately 9.8:1 students per teacher at Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle.
How diverse is Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle?
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle reports a student body of 2% White, 7% Hispanic, 86% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle public or private?
Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.