Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle School

Size

Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle School is the only middle school in Ewing Marion Kauffman School. Its 559 students are 58.2% of the district's 961. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 185 students, so Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle 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 6 with 164 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 119, against an average of 140 per grade. This year grade 8 has 16% more students than grade 5 (138 against 119). 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 85.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Ewing Marion Kauffman School (82.7%). 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 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 53.8% 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 Middle School has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 559 students would have about 43 teachers, so Ewing Marion Kauffman Middle School has 14 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri middle schools (13).

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 middle school is Brookside Charter Middle School, 0.2 miles away in Brookside Charter School. There are 12 middle schools within 5 miles and 20 within 10 miles.

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