5401 NW 72nd St
Kansas City, MO 64151

My son is thriving here. The Teachers are smart and fun. They have a lot of opportunities for club and sport activities.

Parent to a sophomore. Every. Single. Day. Someone is caught vaping, the school is on lock down, the school is on a “hold” so the buses won’t leave. Girls fighting/pulling one another’s hair out all while students stand around recording. Class disruptions due to fights or unruly students. Buses being stopped because singular students are vaping and kids being forced to stay on the bus until staff “figures it out”. I don’t know how this school is highly rated in any scores, since moving here, my kids are bored. (Sophomore, 8th grade and 7th). Curriculum has plummeted and everything has turned into an “everybody gets a medal scenario.” This school is as trashy as they come. Thankfully, Park Hill South is an option.

I blame the DISTRICT for my 3-star rating, not the people on the ground in the school. In the 2022-2023 school year, the fifth grade classrooms of Chinn are holding between 29-31 students per classroom. The district did not see the need to divide the 5th grade into 4 classrooms of 22-23 students each, and that has taken a toll on the students, the teachers, and the parents. The students have done the best they can, but have you seen how LARGE a 10-11 year old child is recently? Imagine 30, 5 foot tall, 100 pound people with newly changing hormones and not-fully-developed-prefrontal-cortexes, and you can imagine how difficult this is for everyone. The poor, exhausted teachers. The school is doing the best they can with what they've been given, but the DISTRICT is to blame for not solving this at the beginning of the complaints in the fall. Thank you to the staff, teachers, and administrators in the building for doing a great job with your hands tied. Keep up the great work.

This is a nice fun school I’m in 7th grade and the teachers are nice don’t listen to other reviews:)