Abilene Middle School

Abilene Middle School is a tight-knit middle-grades school in Abilene, Kansas, overseen by Abilene. The school teaches 319 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% leaner than the state mean of about 402.

Across the 6 schools in Abilene (1,476 students total), Abilene Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Abilene Middle School lists that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Abilene Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of +0.1 points.

Across the wider county, Dickinson County reports that median household income runs about $68,417, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dickinson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,530 students), Abilene Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Abilene Middle School. On composite proficiency, Abilene Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 89% to 84%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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