Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 315
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KANSAS CITY 33·NCES 291640002530
PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY
1000 W 17TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64108 · (816) 418-8735 · Jackson County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Missouri public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Missouri public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
494 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 54%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 59 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 44 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 105% larger than its 6th grade class (44).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 52% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
10.5%
MO avg 44.9% . -2.1pp since 2021
Math
5.9%
MO avg 43.8% . -2.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.5% | 5.9% |
| 2023-24 | 7.2% | 5.8% |
| 2022-23 | 10.2% | 3.7% |
| 2021-22 | 12.6% | 8.2% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
8.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY
PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY's state test result (8.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY this school | 494 | 100.0% | 8.5% |
| ERVIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KANSAS CITY | 427 | 100.0% | 17.4% |
| WARFORD ELEMENTARY KANSAS CITY | 407 | 100.0% | 19.1% |
| IVELAND ELEM. ST LOUIS | 441 | 100.0% | 29.7% |
| KRATZ ELEM. ST LOUIS | 474 | 100.0% | 19.3% |
| GEORGE MELCHER ELEMENTARY KANSAS CITY | 341 | 100.0% | 8.7% |
Matched among Missouri elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Missouri | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.5% | #970 of 1,002 | #120 of 126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.9% | #990 of 1,019 ▲ 1 | #122 of 126 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.5% | #982 of 1,018 ▲ 16 | #120 of 126 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.2pp | #299 of 943 | #45 of 124 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #171 of 1,294 | #27 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #836 of 950 | #108 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.7% | #173 of 953 | #59 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #114 of 1,165 | #37 of 136 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +39.2% | #20 of 251 | #4 of 37 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
494
+212 (+75%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 11.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 494 | 32.6 | 15.1:1 | 100% (494) |
| 2023-24 | 425 | 31.2 | 13.6:1 | 100% (425) |
| 2022-23 | 263 | 26.1 | 10.1:1 | 99% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 282 | 25 | 11.3:1 | 99% (279) |
| 2017-18 | 355 | 26.4 | 13.5:1 | 100% (355) |
| 2015-16 | 255 | 21 | 12.1:1 | 99% (252) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | 28 | 12.7:1 | 87% (308) |
| 2000-01 | 452 | 28 | 16.1:1 | 86% (390) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 24 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 39% (355 to 494); teachers up 24% (26.4 to 32.6).
About PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY
A large elementary school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is part of KANSAS CITY 33. It reports enrollment of 494 students in pre-K through 6. On average, elementary schools in Missouri enroll around 315, and this school is 57% larger than that mark.
The district for PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is KANSAS CITY 33, with 31 schools and 15,079 students.
Of every 100 students at PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY, about 57 are Black. The rest of enrollment is 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% White, and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Jackson County, the Black share is about 22%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 61%.
The school has 32.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 15.1 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Missouri have an average ratio of 12.4:1. The school reported 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Jackson County averages 60%, lower than here.
PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 3% of Missouri public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY falls in the middle 80% of Missouri schools: 8.5% actual against 22.4% predicted.
Census data for Jackson County show the median household earns about $68,577 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Jackson County number 244, with about 105,714 students.
Of the public schools around it, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is closest to CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL, about 0.6 miles away. PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY ranks 7th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 8.5% against a local average of 56.3%.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school counted 282 students in 2020-21 and 494 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference. The ratio was 11.3:1 in 2020-21 and 15.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
719,976
Census ACS
Median income
$68,577
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
244
105,714 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in KANSAS CITY 33
- EAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 students
- LINCOLN COLLEGE PREP.High · 997 students
- M. L. KING ELEMENTARYElementary · 768 students
- NORTHEAST HIGHHigh · 732 students
- PASEO ACAD. OF PERFORMING ARTSHigh · 669 students
- NORTHEAST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 607 students
Other schools in KANSAS CITY
- STALEY HIGHHigh · 2,091 students
- PARK HILL HIGHHigh · 1,947 students
- OAK PARK HIGHHigh · 1,755 students
- NORTH KANSAS CITY HIGHHigh · 1,719 students
- RUSKIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,299 students
- WINNETONKA HIGHHigh · 1,238 students
Nearby schools
- CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL0.6 mi · 242
- CROSSROADS - CENTRAL STREET0.7 mi · 355
- CROSSROADS PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.8 mi · 406
- GUADALUPE CENTERS MIDDLE1.0 mi · 355
- Jackson County Juvenile Ctr.1.5 mi · 24
- GUADALUPE CENTERS HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARYHow large is PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY?
PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY serve?
PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is approximately 15.1:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY are roughly 8% White, 23% Hispanic, 57% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY in?
PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is part of KANSAS CITY 33.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.