KIPP Endeavor Academy

Size

KIPP Endeavor Academy is the only elementary school in Kipp: Endeavor Academy. Its 665 students are 63.5% of the district's 1,047. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 375 students, so KIPP Endeavor Academy 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 85 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 57, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% more students than kindergarten (64 against 57). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 70 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 80.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Kipp: Endeavor Academy (78.1%). Hispanic students are next, at 12.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Kipp: Endeavor Academy and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 60.6% 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

KIPP Endeavor Academy has 68.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.8 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 665 students would have about 54.1 teachers, so KIPP Endeavor Academy has 14.1 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 Wendell Phillips Elementary School, 0.6 miles away in Kansas City 33 School District. There are 30 elementary schools within 5 miles and 92 within 10 miles.

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