KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL

KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of low-enrollment scale in Kansas City, Missouri, overseen by KIPP: ENDEAVOR ACADEMY, caters to 382 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 24% leaner than typical.

KIPP: ENDEAVOR ACADEMY comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,047 students; KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) shows 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%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TRAILWOODS ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL operates from an urban location. KIPP KC LEGACY HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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