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HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY
HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates as a compact senior high in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, operated by HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY. Current enrollment sits at 318 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 37% below typical.
Across the 3 schools in HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (843 students total), HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY lists that nearly all students (93%) are Black. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
On the resource side, On paper, HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -3.5 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that median household earnings sit near $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area. HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY has contracted 12%, going from 361 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 99% to 93% over that span.
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