Alternative Resource Ctr.
KANSAS CITY · MO · DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICE · Public · K-12 combined
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MANUAL CAREER TECH. CTR. → CONTRACT → B W SHEPERD SCHOOL → SUCCESS ACADEMY → CENTER ACADEMY FOR SUCCESS → CTR. FOR EDUC. DEVELOPMENT → NORTHWOOD SCH. → DAY TREATMENT →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 75% (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Missouri-Columbia
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $20,268/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -27.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 2 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANUAL CAREER TECH. CTR. KANSAS CITY |
Public | 1.9 | 2 | — |
| CONTRACT KANSAS CITY |
Public | 2.5 | 5 | — |
| B W SHEPERD SCHOOL KANSAS CITY |
Public | 1.0 | — | — |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY KANSAS CITY |
Public | 1.8 | — | — |
| CENTER ACADEMY FOR SUCCESS KANSAS CITY |
Public | 6.8 | — | — |
| CTR. FOR EDUC. DEVELOPMENT KANSAS CITY |
Public | 7.5 | — | — |
| NORTHWOOD SCH. KANSAS CITY |
Public | 7.6 | — | — |
| DAY TREATMENT INDEPENDENCE |
Public | 9.1 | — | — |