General Info

Located in Kansas City, Mo., Gordon Parks Elementary School is a nonprofit public charter school that was established in 1999. It has an annual enrollment of more than 200 students. The school employs classroom and special education teachers, counselors, behavior intervention specialists, speech and language pathologists, and art, music and physical education instructors. Gordon Parks Elementary School is comprised of over 25 full- and part-time members. It operates a nearly 32,000-square-foot facility that houses approximately 10 classrooms and art and music rooms, as well as maintains a gymnasium and a cafeteria. The school also has a library and media center that that offers a collection of books on various topics and provides a range of databases, encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers, online resources and reference materials to students.