Ewing Marion Kauffman High School

Size

Ewing Marion Kauffman High School is the only high school in Ewing Marion Kauffman School. Its 402 students are 41.8% of the district's 961. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 278 students, so Ewing Marion Kauffman High 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 9 with 127 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 88, against an average of 101 per grade. This year grade 12 has 31% fewer students than grade 9 (88 against 127). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 78.4% of enrollment, a lower share than across Ewing Marion Kauffman School (82.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 13.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Ewing Marion Kauffman School and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 35.1% 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

Ewing Marion Kauffman High School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 402 students would have about 33 teachers, so Ewing Marion Kauffman High School has 7 more.

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 Hogan Preparatory Academy, 0.3 miles away in Hogan Preparatory Academy. There are 11 high schools within 5 miles and 25 within 10 miles.

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