WHITTIER ELEMENTARY

WHITTIER ELEMENTARY is a primary school of roomy scale in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, operated by KANSAS CITY 33, caters to 550 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 75% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 315 students.

KANSAS CITY 33 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 15,079 students; WHITTIER ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, WHITTIER ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 41% Black, 10% Asian, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, WHITTIER ELEMENTARY has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at WHITTIER ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHITTIER ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Jackson County put 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%. WHITTIER ELEMENTARY is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

The closest other public school is KIPP ENDEAVOR ACADEMY, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WHITTIER ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHITTIER ELEMENTARY has ticked up 20%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 550 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 12% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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