GORDON PARKS ELEM.

GORDON PARKS ELEM. is one of the close-knit elementary campuss in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, overseen by GORDON PARKS ELEM., with 131 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 315.

GORDON PARKS ELEM. sits inside GORDON PARKS ELEM., the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, GORDON PARKS ELEM. reports that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 9% White, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting GORDON PARKS ELEM. tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at GORDON PARKS ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, GORDON PARKS ELEM. sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.4%; actual is 29.3%, a gap of -20.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jackson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), GORDON PARKS ELEM. is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ALLEN VILLAGE ELEMENTARY ACADE, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GORDON PARKS ELEM.. On composite proficiency, GORDON PARKS ELEM. comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, GORDON PARKS ELEM. runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. GORDON PARKS ELEM.'s enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 180 (now 131). Black enrollment moved from 72% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.