KC International-Wallace

Size

KC International-Wallace is the only school in KC International Academy, so its 662 students are the district's whole enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 397 students, so KC International-Wallace 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 7 with 77 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 28, against an average of 66 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 61 in kindergarten and 66 in grade 8. It also enrolls 28 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 49.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Missouri public schools (15.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 27.2%. 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 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 56.9% 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. State shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

KC International-Wallace has 80.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.2 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 662 students would have about 53.8 teachers, so KC International-Wallace has 26.9 more.

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

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 elementary school is Fairmount Elementary School, 1.4 miles away in Independence 30 School District. There are 30 elementary schools within 5 miles and 96 within 10 miles.

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