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LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE
Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% 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%.
About LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE
LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of medium-sized scale in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, part of KANSAS CITY 33, enrolling 583 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 461 students each, so LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.
KANSAS CITY 33 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 15,079 students. LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE logs that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 31% White, 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 43.0%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household earnings sit near $68,577, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP., roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
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Jackson County at a glance
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