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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Allison Traditional Magnet Middle administration to hear?
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Enrollment
536
Middle
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000326
Allison Traditional Magnet Middle
221 S Seneca, Wichita, KS 67213 · (316) 973-4800 · Sedgwick County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Kansas public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
382 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 184 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 178 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 174 | 32% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
42.1%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
43.8%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.1% | 43.8% |
| 2023-24 | 30.4% | 29.9% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Allison Traditional Magnet Middle
Allison Traditional Magnet Middle's state test result (37.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allison Traditional Magnet Middle this school | 536 | 71.3% | 37.5% |
| Jardine Middle School Topeka | 508 | 75.8% | 20.8% |
| Robinson Middle School Topeka | 361 | 78.9% | 20.8% |
| Marjorie French Middle School Topeka | 480 | 64.4% | 27.1% |
| Robert E Clark Middle Bonner Springs | 599 | 64.3% | 23.8% |
| Richard Warren Middle School Leavenworth | 427 | 67.0% | 16.0% |
Matched among Kansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Allison Traditional Magnet Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #69 of 192 | #10 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #56 of 192 | #6 of 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #89 of 192 | #14 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #75 of 225 | #20 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #153 of 161 | #28 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.7% | #4 of 161 | #3 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.3% | #42 of 195 | #14 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.5% | #46 of 54 | #13 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
536
+12 (+2%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 552
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 15.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 536 | 33.6 | 16.0:1 | 71% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 535 | 34.7 | 15.4:1 | 72% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 557 | 37 | 15.1:1 | 68% (380) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 35 | 15.0:1 | 60% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 523 | 32.4 | 16.1:1 | 51% (269) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 55% (294) |
| 2010-11 | 523 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 47% (248) |
| 2000-01 | 507 | 32 | 15.8:1 | 34% (174) |
| 1990-91 | 552 | 30 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Allison Traditional Magnet Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (523 to 536); teachers up 4% (32.4 to 33.6).
About Allison Traditional Magnet Middle
In Wichita, Kansas, part of Sedgwick County, Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is a middle-grades school. It enrolls 536 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 33% larger than the 402-student average for middle schools in Kansas.
Wichita enrolls 47,545 students in 87 schools, including Allison Traditional Magnet Middle.
The largest group at Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is White students, at 32%. Smaller groups are 32% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% multiracial, and 5% Asian. For comparison, the population of Sedgwick County is roughly 69% White. The diversity index for Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is 74%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Allison Traditional Magnet Middle comes to 33.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.0:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Kansas is 12.7:1. Allison Traditional Magnet Middle counts 71% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Sedgwick County averages 63%, lower than here.
Among Kansas public middle schools, Allison Traditional Magnet Middle outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is 9.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Kansas schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Sedgwick County show that the median household earns about $69,365 a year, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Across Sedgwick County, 160 public schools serve about 84,569 students.
Measured in a straight line, Franklin Elem is about 0.2 miles from Allison Traditional Magnet Middle. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 37.5% is above the 18.6% average for nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is City: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 536, close to the 524 recorded in 2020-21.
People who know Allison Traditional Magnet Middle can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
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- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
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Other schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- Campus High HaysvilleHigh · 1,803 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Elem0.2 mi · 390
- West High0.6 mi · 1,306
- Education Imagine Academy0.9 mi · 566
- Riverside Leadership Magnet Elementary1.3 mi · 255
- Stanley Elem1.4 mi · 439
- Hamilton Middle School1.4 mi · 604
Frequently asked questions
About Allison Traditional Magnet MiddleHow many students attend Allison Traditional Magnet Middle?
Allison Traditional Magnet Middle enrolls approximately 536 students in grades 06-08.
Is Allison Traditional Magnet Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Allison Traditional Magnet Middle?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Allison Traditional Magnet Middle.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Allison Traditional Magnet Middle?
At Allison Traditional Magnet Middle, the student body is approximately 32% White, 32% Hispanic, 20% Black, 5% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Allison Traditional Magnet Middle public or private?
Allison Traditional Magnet Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wichita.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.