High · Kansas
Sumner Academy of Arts & Science
Free meals for allSumner Academy of Arts & Science, a public high school in Kansas City, Kansas: grades 8–12, 1,045 students, 17.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Kansas City.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,045
- Teachers (FTE)
- 61.3
- Students per teacher
- 17.0
- Grades
- 8–12
- High
More students per teacher than 94% of high schools in Kansas
Median 11.0 · 335 schools compared
More students per teacher than 68% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 86% of high schools in Kansas
Median 187 · 367 schools compared
Larger than 75% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Kansas's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Kansas: 46%63%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A higher share proficient than 95% of high schools in Kansas
Median 40% · 101 high schools compared
172 students tested, grades 8 · KAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Kansas: 40%44%proficient
New test or proficiency bar this year: not comparable with the year before.
A higher share proficient than 71% of high schools in Kansas
Median 35% · 101 high schools compared
172 students tested, grades 8 · KAP; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 8–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Kansas City
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Kansas City.
Location
- Address
- 1610 N 8th Street, Kansas City, KS 66101
- Phone
- (913)627-7200
- City or town
- Kansas City
- County
- Wyandotte County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
School for Blind HighSpecial education | 6–12 | 27 | 5.4 |
Wyandotte HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,903 | 19.1 |
| 7–12 | 406 | 10.5 | |
| 9–12 | 1,719 | 16.3 | |
| 9–12 | 1,890 | 16.9 | |
Manual Career Tech. Ctr.Career and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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