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LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE
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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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