GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER

Set in Kansas City, Missouri, GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER is a roomy junior high, overseen by NORTH KANSAS CITY 74. It instructs 882 students across grade 6. That puts it 91% above the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.

NORTH KANSAS CITY 74 comprises 33 schools with combined enrollment of 21,252 students; GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER is among them.

On demographics, GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER records that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 51.5%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household income runs about $88,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER is one of 80 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 41,553 students).

The closest other public school is NORTHVIEW ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GATEWAY 6TH GRADE CENTER at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 57.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

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