Hale Cook Elementary School

Size

Of the 21 elementary schools in Kansas City 33 School District, Hale Cook Elementary School is the 15th largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 337; Hale Cook Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 kindergarten with 60 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 20, against an average of 43 per grade. This year grade 6 has 58% fewer students than kindergarten (25 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 20 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is White students: 57.3% here and 10.8% across Kansas City 33. Black students are next, at 20.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Kansas City 33 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 16.9% 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

With 25.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 344 students, Hale Cook Elementary School has 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 344 students would have about 28 teachers, so Hale Cook Elementary School has 2.2 fewer.

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

Location

Hale Cook Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Academie Lafayette Oak Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Academie Lafayette. Within 10 miles there are 67 other elementary schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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