GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE

Set in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE is a small intermediate school, part of GUADALUPE CENTERS SCHOOLS. It caters to 355 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 461.

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

On the student-mix side, GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE shows that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GUADALUPE CENTERS 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 49.8%; this one delivers 73.6%, a residual of +23.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that median household earnings sit near $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: ALTERNATIVE RESOURCE CTR., around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site. GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE's enrollment has grew 76% since 2018, when it stood at 202 (now 355). Class-load math has grew: from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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