LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP.

LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. is a high school of big scale in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, part of KANSAS CITY 33, serveing 997 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 99% larger than the state mean of about 501.

Within KANSAS CITY 33, which oversees 31 schools and 15,079 students, LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. logs that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% White, 24% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, On paper, LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 41.6%.

Zooming out to the county, Jackson County reports that median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN COLLEGE ACADEMY MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP. at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 1,043 students in 2018 compared to 997 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 35% to 24%.

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