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KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 24 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 22 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY
Set in Kansas City, Missouri, KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY is a substantial primary school, one of the schools within KIPP: ENDEAVOR ACADEMY. It educates 665 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 111% above the state mean of about 315.
Across the 2 schools in KIPP: ENDEAVOR ACADEMY (1,047 students total), KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY lists that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
On the resource side, On paper, KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.4:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, KIPP ENDEAVOR 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 39.6%, a residual of -9.8 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Jackson County runs 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), of which KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY is one.
The closest other public school is LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP., roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY's enrollment has grew 21% since 2018, when it stood at 548 (now 665). Black enrollment moved from 66% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.
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