Academie Lafayette Cherry Elementary School

Size

Of the 2 elementary schools in Academie Lafayette, Academie Lafayette Cherry Elementary School is the smallest, with 34.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 188 students, so Academie Lafayette Cherry Elementary School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 93 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 12, against an average of 70 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% fewer students than kindergarten (62 against 85). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 12 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 52.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Academie Lafayette (55.7%). Black students are next, at 22.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

33.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 30.9% across Academie Lafayette and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 12.6% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Academie Lafayette Cherry Elementary School has 32.65 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 492 students would have about 40 teachers, so Academie Lafayette Cherry Elementary School has 7.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Foreign Language Academy, 0.3 miles away in Kansas City 33 School District. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 88 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.