Kansas City 33
Two Cities, Two Trajectories: Kansas City Surges Past St. Louis
In 2019, Kansas City 33 graduated 69.4 percent of its four-year cohort. St. Louis City graduated 71.7 percent. The two districts, Missouri's largest urban systems, were separated by 2.3 percentage poi...
Kansas City Schools Lost 60% of Its Students. Then It Started Growing.
In the spring of 2024, George Melcher Elementary School in Kansas City's Northeast neighborhood was absorbing new students faster than it could schedule them. Eighteen months earlier, the school had b...
Kansas City's 19-Point Graduation Miracle: From Crisis to Nearly 90 Percent
In 2019, barely seven of every ten students in Kansas City 33 graduated on time. The district's 69.4 percent four-year rate placed it among the worst-performing urban districts in the state, trailing ...
Missouri Lost 20,068 Students in a Single Year
Springfield lost 1,539 students in fall 2022. Not over several years. In a single enrollment count. It was the largest one-year drop of any district in Missouri, and Springfield was not alone: 397 of ...
Missouri Public Schools Just Hit Their Lowest Enrollment in at Least 25 Years
The number on the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's enrollment report is one that no superintendent, school board member, or state legislator wanted to see: 855,081 students ...
Missouri Publishes 2025-26 Enrollment Data
A year ago, Missouri's enrollment was already heading the wrong direction. The state lost 5,580 students between 2023-24 and 2024-25, continuing a slide that had started well before the pandemic. Some...