Paseo Academy of Performing Arts

Size

Paseo Academy of Performing Arts is the 4th largest of Kansas City 33 School District's 6 high schools; its 669 students are 4.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 257 students, so Paseo Academy of Performing Arts 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 8 with 126 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 99, against an average of 112 per grade. This year grade 12 has 11% fewer students than grade 7 (99 against 111). 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 42.6% of enrollment, a lower share than across Kansas City 33 (46.2%). Hispanic students are next, at 40.2%. 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 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 35.1% 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

Paseo Academy of Performing Arts has 58.29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 669 students would have about 54.8 teachers, so Paseo Academy of Performing Arts has 3.5 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

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 high school is Frontier School of Excellence-U, 1.1 miles away in Frontier Schools. There are 15 high schools within 5 miles and 26 within 10 miles.

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