Blue Valley Middle

Set in Overland Park, Kansas, Blue Valley Middle is an average-sized middle-grades school, run under Blue Valley. It educates 593 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Blue Valley Middle sits 48% bigger than that benchmark.

Blue Valley runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 22,491 students. Blue Valley Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Blue Valley Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Blue Valley Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Blue Valley Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Johnson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Blue Valley Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Blue River Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blue Valley Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Blue Valley Middle's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 593). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 78% to 72%.

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