Original Research by School Decision on Success Academy
Success Academy is a school in the Kansas City 33 district (Kansas City Public Schools, or KCPS). A family considering this school will need to work with very limited public data, as key academic and demographic information is not available from state or federal sources.
The school serves kindergarten through twelfth grade as a regular public school on Forest Avenue in Kansas City. This is a large urban setting. Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. It is a mix of commercial, industrial, and residential uses across a very large footprint, with concentrated walkable pockets downtown, in the River Market, and near the Country Club Plaza. Outside those cores, the city is largely car-dependent with lower-density residential neighborhoods and commercial strips. Major employers include the federal government, regional hospital systems, logistics firms, and the city government itself. The housing market in the area around the school shows home values slightly below the national median, with the typical home value change over the past year close to flat. Rents are moderate compared to national income levels.
The most critical gap is the complete absence of state testing data. The school’s academic performance summary contains no results, and the proficiency index metric was marked as not applicable in the comparison because the entity value is missing. Without test scores, there is no measured read on how students here are performing in core subjects like English and math relative to state standards. This is the central question a parent would want answered, and the data does not provide it. The same is true for the four-year graduation rate, which is missing. Because the school serves a full K-12 grade band, missing these results is not explained by an untested grade range. A parent should begin by contacting the school directly for this information.
Enrollment and student demographics were reported, but every single count field—total enrollment, enrollment by each grade, race and ethnicity counts, and special population counts for students with disabilities and English learners—was reported as zero. This is not plausible for an operating school spanning thirteen grades. The data source appears to have returned a null or empty file. As a result, there is no picture of how large the school is, what grade levels it serves in meaningful numbers, or who its students are. There is no information on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price meals, so the economic context of the student body is not visible.
District-level context may help fill in some background. The parent district, Kansas City Public Schools, was granted full accreditation by the state of Missouri in August 2022, ending a five-year period of provisional accreditation. The district posted a score that kept it in accredited status for the 2023-24 school year. For families, this shift signals that the district has met state standards for performance and governance, removing the uncertainty that provisional accreditation carried. The school sits within this district framework.
No information was available on programs offered, such as Advanced Placement, career and technical education, or dual-credit pathways. Course access, staffing ratios, discipline rates, and attendance data were all missing. There is no way to assess the school’s climate, teacher experience, or breadth of academic offerings from the record.
The comparison fact-set places Success Academy relative to districts in Jackson County, but because its own metrics are missing, no comparison could be drawn on proficiency, graduation, or chronic absenteeism. A parent evaluating this school against neighboring options will need to gather data from the school itself.
A family considering Success Academy faces a school with almost no publishable record. The strongest signal is the district’s return to full accreditation, which provides institutional stability. Everything else—academic performance, student body composition, program offerings, graduation outcomes—is absent from the public data. A parent should treat this as the starting point for direct inquiry rather than a fully described option.
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