East High School

Size

East High School is the largest of Kansas City 33 School District's 6 high schools; its 1,155 students are 7.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 489 students, so East High School is larger than most of them.

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 10 with 336 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 244, against an average of 289 per grade. This year grade 12 has 22% fewer students than grade 9 (244 against 314). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 54.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Kansas City 33 (34.2%). Black students are next, at 34.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Kansas City 33 and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 37.1% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

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

Teachers

East High School has 73.42 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.7 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 1,155 students would have about 94.7 teachers, so East High School has 21.3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

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 high school is KIPP KC Legacy High School, 1.1 miles away in Kipp: Endeavor Academy. There are 14 high schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

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