Faxon Elementary, Kansas City MO

Original Research by School Decision on Faxon Elementary

Faxon Elementary is a regular public school in the Kansas City 33 district, serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. Its location in the urban core of Kansas City, a major Midwestern city known for its boulevard system, jazz heritage, and downtown revival, places this school in a dense residential neighborhood. The school is part of Kansas City Public Schools, a district that in 2022 regained full state accreditation after years of provisional status, a milestone that signals the district has met state standards for overall performance and stability.

The student body at Faxon Elementary reflects the neighborhood it serves. All students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, a marker of the economic context families here navigate. Racially and ethnically, the school is predominantly Black, with a substantial Hispanic presence and smaller shares of white, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and multiracial students. Enrollment is not large, and the school serves a single grade per classroom in most grades with modest section sizes.

On state assessments in math and English language arts, administered in grades three through six, proficiency rates are low. Across every tested grade, the share of students scoring at the proficient or advanced level is in the single digits or low teens. Science results in fifth grade are similarly very low. Compared with other districts in Jackson County, the school’s overall proficiency index sits in the bottom quartile, meaning most other districts in the county post higher outcomes. These numbers are a soft spot, and a parent considering the school will want to ask the school directly about the interventions and supports in place to address these results. Only one year of test data was available, so there is no trend line to show whether performance is improving or declining.

The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. No additional data on programs, course access, staffing ratios, discipline rates, or chronic absenteeism was available in the source material, so a parent would need to contact the school to learn about offerings such as enrichment, special education services, or after-school activities.

The housing context in the area where Faxon Elementary sits shows home values that are below both the state and national medians, and rents have been rising in recent years. This is a neighborhood where affordability is a factor for many families.

Faxon Elementary is a school with a clear academic challenge: its students, almost all of whom come from low-income households, are not reaching grade-level benchmarks on Missouri’s state tests at the rates seen in many other area schools. The district’s recent return to full accreditation provides some institutional context, but the school’s own test results remain an area where families will want to investigate the school’s improvement efforts and whether those efforts match their child’s needs.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 312%

School 12% · District 19% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 411%

School 11% · District 18% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 59%

School 9% · District 14% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 611%

School 11% · District 22% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 316%

School 16% · District 20% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 410%

School 10% · District 18% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 514%

School 14% · District 21% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 67%

School 7% · District 20% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Science

Grade 54%

School 4% · District 17% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.