PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY

Located at 1000 W 17TH ST, in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is a substantial elementary-level community that works with 494 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by KANSAS CITY 33. By comparison, Missouri's public schools average about 315 students each, so PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY sits 57% bigger than that benchmark.

PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is one of 31 schools operated by KANSAS CITY 33, a district that works with 15,079 students overall.

On demographics, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 23% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.4:1, putting PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is CROSSROADS - QUALITY HILL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY has ticked up 39%, going from 355 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 31% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the PRIMITIVO GARCIA ELEMENTARY community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.