The top reported proficiency rate is 7% in Math. The lowest is 3% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Troost Elementary
Troost Elementary is a school that no longer operates. It is a closed regular public school that was part of the Kansas City 33 district in Kansas City, Missouri. The profile here reflects its most recent available data before closure, which provides a picture of its final years of operation.
The school served students in grades three through six, according to the state assessment records. As an elementary and middle-grade school, it did not have a graduation rate, and none is expected for a school serving this grade band.
The most concrete picture of the school’s academic performance comes from the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) results for the 2022-23 school year. In every subject and at every grade level, the share of students scoring proficient or above was very low. In third-grade math, roughly one in every thirteen students tested at that level; in fourth-grade math, the rate was similar. In fifth-grade math, about one in fourteen reached proficiency. Sixth-grade math was marginally higher, at roughly one in twelve. In English language arts, the results followed a similar pattern: third grade showed about one in ten students proficient, fourth grade about one in sixteen, fifth grade about one in ten, and sixth grade less than one in thirty. In fifth-grade science, about one in twenty-nine students scored proficient. Across all tested grades and subjects, the overwhelming majority of students scored below the proficient threshold. A parent considering this school in its operational years would have encountered a student body where very few students met the state’s academic benchmarks in any area.
Kansas City itself is a major urban center with a broad mix of commercial, industrial, and residential areas. The city is known for a strong network of parks and boulevards, a growing downtown residential scene, and institutions such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum and the Kauffman Center. The school was located in the urban core, in a city where car dependence is the norm in most neighborhoods but where certain pockets like downtown and the Country Club Plaza offer more walkable settings. The housing values in the ZIP code area were moderate relative to national benchmarks, with rents near the national median level.
The Kansas City 33 district itself underwent a significant change that became effective before the school’s data period. In August 2022, the Missouri Board of Education granted full accreditation to the district for the first time in roughly two decades, ending a five-year stretch of provisional accreditation. This change removed the uncertainty that had hung over the district regarding its long-term oversight and signaled that the state had recognized sustained improvements in district operations. For families in the district, that shift meant the district was no longer under a provisional status that had flagged potential issues.
North of the school-level data, the district’s enrollment, demographics, and other contextual information for Troost Elementary were not available in this profile. The absence means a reader cannot see the total enrollment count, the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, the racial and ethnic composition of the student body, or the share of students with disabilities or identified as English learners. These are all gaps that a parent would need to check directly with the district to fill.
Given the school is closed, this record is primarily of historical interest rather than an active choice for a family. It shows a school that struggled academically across all tested subjects and grade levels, operating within an urban district that had recently regained full accreditation after many years, and located in a dense, car-dependent Midwestern city.
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