Kansas City Girls Prep Middle School

Size

Kansas City Girls Prep Middle School is the only school in Kansas City Girls Prep Academy, so its 111 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.5 miles away and have a median of 365 students, so Kansas City Girls Prep Middle School is smaller 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 7 with 39 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 8, against an average of 28 per grade. This year grade 8 has 338% more students than grade 5 (35 against 8). 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 58.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Missouri public schools (15.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 28.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 48.6% 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Kansas City Girls Prep Middle School has 24.99 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 4.4 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 111 students would have about 8.5 teachers, so Kansas City Girls Prep Middle School has 16.5 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 Northeast Middle School, 1.1 miles away in Kansas City 33 School District. There are 9 middle schools within 5 miles and 28 within 10 miles.

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