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St. Louis, Missouri - 2 schools
An equity score of 87/100 ranks Kairos Academies #14 of 432 districts in Missouri (state average 50). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $14,271 per pupil, Kairos Academies ranks #127 of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending (Missouri districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
419
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$14,271
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Kairos Academies operates 2 public schools serving 419 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Missouri. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high, 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in St. Louis City.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $14,271 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 549 Missouri districts by per-pupil spending. See how Missouri compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 12.1% local, 51.8% state, and 36.1% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles. The district's equity score is 87/100, ranked #14 of 432 in Missouri against a state average of 50, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
and 63.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 72.5% African American, 11.9% White, 5.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Kairos High, enrolling 287 students (56% of the district's total enrollment).
Kairos High accounts for 55.7% of all Kairos Academies student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Kairos Academies a distant remainder — means Kairos Academies-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Kairos Academies has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 52.7% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Kairos Academies chronic absenteeism rate is 63.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.