Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr

Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr operates as a medium-sized middle-grades school in Garden City, Kansas, one of the schools within Garden City. Current enrollment sits at 367 students spanning grades 5 through 6.

Across the 18 schools in Garden City (7,032 students total), Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White, 9% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Finney County as a whole is about 53% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 80% of students at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Finney County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,009 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr is one of 23 public schools in Finney County (combined enrollment of about 7,939 students).

The closest other public school is Florence Wilson Elem, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.3%.

Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr has declined 27%, going from 505 students in 2018 to 367 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 4% to 9% across the same window.

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