Report Card

About the Report Card

Partnership for Children issued its first Report Card on the Status of Greater Kansas City's Children and Youth in 1992. Published annually in the fall, the Report Card summarizes the well-being of children and youth in Greater Kansas City, and encourages community actions to improve children's lives.

The grades Partnership for Children issues in the annual Report Card are based on data for 18 different benchmarks widely regarded as reliable measures of children's well-being. These benchmarks are grouped in five categories: Safety & Security, Health, Early Education, Education, and Teen Years.

These benchmarks, as well as the grading system, are analyzed each year to determine:

• Whether the situation in metropolitan Kansas City is improving, stabilizing, or getting worse, based on data from the past three years
• Whether the situation in metropolitan Kansas City is better, the same as, or worse than the national or state average

When the first Report Card was released in 1992, the well-being of children in Greater Kansas City received an overall grade of "D". In our 14th Report Card, released September 2006, the overall grade was a "C".

As a community which cares for its children, Greater Kansas City should not be satisfied until the overall grade for children's well-being reaches an "A" and stays there. When we reach that milestone, we will know that the metro area is truly a great place to be a child.

2006 Report Card & Data Briefing Book

Download the entire 2006 Report Card (pdf)

Download by Section

Introduction (pdf)
Grades (pdf)
Safety & Security (pdf)
Health (pdf)
Early Care & Education (pdf)
Teen Years (pdf)
Honor Roll (pdf)
Data Appendix (pdf)

Previous Years' Report Cards

2005 Report Card & Data Briefing (pdf)
2004 Report Card & Data Briefing (pdf)
2003 Report Card & Data Briefing (pdf)

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