GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL

GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of mid-sized scale in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within GUADALUPE CENTERS SCHOOLS, enrolling 458 students in grades 9 through 12.

GUADALUPE CENTERS SCHOOLS runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,614 students. GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 84% of students at GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Missouri public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.7%; GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL posts 74.0%, +24.3 points above that line.

In the area at large, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP., around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 49.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site. GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 16%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 89% to 97% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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