Lincoln College Academy Middle School

Size

Lincoln College Academy Middle School is the 2nd largest of Kansas City 33 School District's 3 middle schools; its 583 students are 3.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.1 miles away and have a median of 220 students, so Lincoln College Academy Middle School is larger than most of them.

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 220 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 150, against an average of 194 per grade. This year grade 8 has 42% more students than grade 6 (213 against 150). 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 31.9% of enrollment, a lower share than across Kansas City 33 (46.2%). White students are next, at 31.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across Kansas City 33 and a median of 48.6% for Missouri middle schools. 20.6% 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

Lincoln College Academy Middle School has 29.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri middle school ratio of 13, a school with 583 students would have about 44.8 teachers, so Lincoln College Academy Middle School has 14.9 fewer.

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 Central Middle School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 9 middle schools within 5 miles and 23 within 10 miles.

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