NORTHEAST HIGH

NORTHEAST HIGH, a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, run under KANSAS CITY 33, educates 732 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 501 students per school, that is 46% larger than typical.

KANSAS CITY 33 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 15,079 students. NORTHEAST HIGH is one of those campuses.

Demographically, NORTHEAST HIGH reports that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTHEAST HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of +2.2 points.

Around the school, Jackson County reports that median household income runs about $68,577, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students), NORTHEAST HIGH is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTHEAST HIGH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 664 students in 2018 compared to 732 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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