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Kansas City, MO · Clery Act 2024 · Private Nonprofit
Kansas City Art Institute
Across 2022–2024, Kansas City Art Institute reported 24 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count rose over that span (largest filed category: Motor Vehicle Theft). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Ozark Christian College.
- 11.07
- Incidents / 1k students
- #1,957
- Rank of 2,072
- #59
- MO rank
- 813
- Enrolled students
11.07 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Kansas City Art Institute reports 11.07 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 115% above LaGrange College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: LaGrange College (0.00/1k); Galen Health Institutes-Miami Campus (0.00/1k); Albany Medical College (25.80/1k); Tennessee College of Applied Technology-McMinnville (0.00/1k); Columbia Gorge Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Ozark Christian College (5.43/1k); Cox College (46.96/1k); William Jewell College (3.13/1k); University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (13.89/1k); Westminster College (29.69/1k); Harris-Stowe State University (9.98/1k); Culver-Stockton College (3.89/1k); Concordia Seminary (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 11.07
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #1,957
- report fewer incidents than this campus
- 94%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 9
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 177746 · Kansas City Art Institute 11.07/1k score rate · #1,957/2,072
RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-HOT 11.07/1k
- RANK-BOTTOM #1,957/2,072
- ST-MID #59 in state
- ABOVE-PEER LaGrange College · +11.07
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-UP ↑ 200%
- CAT-LEAD Motor Vehicle Th…
- ENR-SMALL 813
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: LaGrange College (-11.07/1k)
Kansas City Art Institute sheet RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer LaGrange College. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-HOT · RANK-BOTTOM · ST-MID · ABOVE-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-UP · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is LaGrange College (-11.07/1k). National rank #1,957 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Kansas City Art Institute reports 11.07 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 115% above LaGrange College. Similar-enrollment scored peers: LaGrange College (0.00/1k); Galen Health Institutes-Miami Campus (0.00/1k); Albany Medical College (25.80/1k); Tennessee College of Applied Technology-McMinnville (0.00/1k); Columbia Gorge Community College (0.00/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Ozark Christian College (5.43/1k); Cox College (46.96/1k); William Jewell College (3.13/1k); University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (13.89/1k); Westminster College (29.69/1k); Harris-Stowe State University (9.98/1k); Culver-Stockton College (3.89/1k); Concordia Seminary (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Motor Vehicle Theft.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Kansas City Art
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Kansas on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- LaGrange College · lowest peer 0
LaGrange College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Galen Health Institutes-Miami Campus · near 0
Galen Health Institutes-Miami Campus — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Tennessee College of Applied · near 0
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-McMinnville — near
0 per 1,000 students
- Kansas City Art Institute · this campus
Kansas City Art Institute — this campus
11.07 per 1,000 students
- Albany Medical College · highest peer
Albany Medical College — highest peer
25.8 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Kansas City Art Institute's 11.07/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Kansas City Art Institute decreased from 12 to 9 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 MO 4-year peers in this comparison, Kansas City Art Institute is larger than 78% and safer-reporting than 14% - the larger, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Kansas City Art Institute: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conception Seminary College | 63 | 0.00 | 0 | 42 |
| Eden Theological Seminary | 72 | 0.00 | 3 | 42 |
| Stevens-The Institute of Business & Arts | 89 | 0.00 | 6 | 42 |
| Aquinas Institute of Theology | 110 | 0.00 | 8 | 42 |
| Urshan Graduate School of Theology | 116 | 0.00 | 11 | 42 |
| Bolivar Technical College | 144 | 0.00 | 14 | 42 |
| Bryan University | 153 | 0.00 | 17 | 42 |
| Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis | 164 | 0.00 | 19 | 42 |
| Nazarene Theological Seminary | 168 | 11.90 | 22 | 11 |
| Central Christian College of the Bible | 189 | 0.00 | 25 | 42 |
| Southeast Missouri Hospital College of Nursing and Health Sciences | 197 | 0.00 | 28 | 42 |
| Kansas City Art Institute (this campus) | 813 | 11.07 | 78 | 14 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Kansas City Art Institute fell from 12 to 9 (-25%). The increase shows up in Motor Vehicle Theft (7 to 9). Falling over the same period: Aggravated Assault (1 to 0), Burglary (1 to 0) and Fondling (1 to 0).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Kansas City Art Institute
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 6 Clery Act categories here: Motor Vehicle Theft, Aggravated Assault, Rape, Burglary, Fondling and Robbery. Motor Vehicle Theft accounts for most of them.
The remaining 5 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Incest, Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter and Negligent Manslaughter. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyKansas City Art Institute: Criminal Offenses by year
Rising 200% (3 → 9 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 7 | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rape | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Burglary | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
9 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 4 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Kansas City Art Institute vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
GA
LaGrange College
FL
Galen Health Institutes-Miami Campus
Cost context
Where Kansas City Art Institute sits on price and outcomes
At $27,650, Kansas City Art Institute's reported average net price is cheaper than 92% among 116 Missouri colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $17,613.
- $27,650
- average net price
- $17,613
- Missouri median
- 0.9×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $4,547
- reported income-bracket spread
Price barely responds to income at this institution. Families under $30,000 report $26,293 and those above $110,000 report $30,840, a difference of just $4,547. Where the curve is this flat, need-based aid is doing little of the work and the sticker figure is close to what most families actually pay.
Median earnings six years after entry ($25,529) are less than one year of the reported net price. That is a thin margin, and it is the figure worth pressing the school on before enrolling.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $44,550
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $44,550
- Avg Net Price
- $27,650
- Median Debt
- $27,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 44%
Admissions
- Acceptance Rate
- 55%
Outcomes
- 4-Year Graduation Rate
- 62%
- Retention Rate
- 78%
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $25,529
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $37,032
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 69%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,178 similar institutions by enrollment size.
Closest by National Rank
Kansas City Art Institute (national rank #1957) sits near Grinnell College (#1958) and Messiah University (#1956) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Kansas City Art Institute, both outside MO so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
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