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Enrollment
367
Middle
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY·NCES 200639001207
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr
3101 N Belmont, Garden City, KS 67846 · (620) 805-8200 · Finney County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL367 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Kansas public middle schools
- C-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
12.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
295 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 5 | 193 | 53% |
| Grade 6 | 174 | 47% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
26.0%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
20.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 | 26.0% | 20.9% |
| 2023-24 | 19.8% | 11.2% |
% 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
23.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr's state test result (23.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr this school | 367 | 80.4% | 23.2% |
| Horace J. Good Middle School Garden City | 583 | 83.4% | 18.7% |
| Argentine Middle Kansas City | 519 | 80.0% | 7.5% |
| Marshall Middle School Wichita | 596 | 89.4% | 17.0% |
| Kenneth Henderson Middle Garden City | 425 | 72.0% | 23.4% |
| Central Middle Kansas City | 687 | 84.3% | 6.3% |
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 Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.2% | #150 of 192 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #160 of 192 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #165 of 192 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 367 | #127 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #71 of 161 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.4% | #89 of 161 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.4% | #23 of 195 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #7 of 98 |
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
367
-93 (-20%) vs 2020
-41% since 2000-01, when it was 617
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 367 | 28.5 | 12.9:1 | 80% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 351 | 28.5 | 12.3:1 | 83% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 404 | 33.6 | 12.0:1 | 81% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 460 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 76% (348) |
| 2017-18 | 505 | 38.9 | 13.0:1 | 79% (400) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 31 | 14.7:1 | 80% (364) |
| 2010-11 | 580 | 47 | 12.3:1 | 78% (454) |
| 2000-01 | 617 | 41 | 15.1:1 | 58% (358) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (505 to 367); teachers down 27% (38.9 to 28.5).
About Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr is classified as a middle school. It is located in Garden City, Kansas. It is open to students in grades 5 through 6 and enrolls 367 students.
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr sits within Garden City, which has 18 schools and 7,032 students.
At Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr, 71% of students are Hispanic. Other students are 16% White, 9% Black, and 3% Asian. That is higher than the 53% Hispanic share among all Finney County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 46%.
Staffing at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr comes to 28.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.9:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Kansas is similar, at 12.7:1. Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr counts 80% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 45% of Kansas public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr is within a point of its prediction. Actual: 23.2%. Predicted: 23.7%.
For Finney County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $73,009 a year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Counting Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr, Finney County has 23 public schools.
The closest school to Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr is Florence Wilson Elem, located about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr ranks 6th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr the locale Town: Remote, meaning in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment decreased 20% over 4 years, reaching 367 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.8:1 to 12.9:1.
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Finney County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,084
Census ACS
Median income
$73,009
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrMiddle · 377 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
Nearby schools
- Florence Wilson Elem0.7 mi · 376
- Kenneth Henderson Middle0.9 mi · 425
- Georgia Matthews Elem1.2 mi · 112
- Garden City High School1.2 mi · 1,946
- Gertrude Walker Elem1.3 mi · 186
- Jennie Wilson Elem1.3 mi · 796
Frequently asked questions
About Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrHow large is Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr?
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr enrolls approximately 367 students in grades 05-06.
What age range does Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr serve?
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr serves students from grade 05 through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr?
At Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr, the student body is approximately 16% White, 71% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr?
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr is overseen by Garden City in Finney County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.