Pitcher Elementary School

Size

Pitcher Elementary School is the 20th largest of Kansas City 33 School District's 21 elementary schools; its 252 students are 1.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 353 students, so Pitcher Elementary School is smaller 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 3 with 41 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 20, against an average of 32 per grade. This year grade 6 has 16% fewer students than kindergarten (26 against 31). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 20 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 40.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Kansas City 33 (34.2%). Black students are next, at 36.9%. 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 Kansas City 33 and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 42.9% 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. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Pitcher Elementary School has 21.96 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.5 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 252 students would have about 20.5 teachers, so Pitcher Elementary School has 1.5 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 Cassell Park Elementary School, 1 miles away in Independence 30 School District. There are 34 elementary schools within 5 miles and 98 within 10 miles.

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