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How has Brooks Magnet Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
578
Middle
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000327
Brooks Magnet Middle School
3802 E 27th N, Wichita, KS 67220 · (316) 973-6450 · Sedgwick County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL578 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of Kansas public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
15.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
495 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 | 197 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 184 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 197 | 34% |
Student demographics
71%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
25.0%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
16.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 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 | 25.0% | 16.9% |
| 2023-24 | 20.9% | 15.2% |
% 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
18.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Brooks Magnet Middle School
Brooks Magnet Middle School's state test result (18.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks Magnet Middle School this school | 578 | 85.6% | 18.9% |
| Stucky Middle School Wichita | 518 | 73.2% | 17.3% |
| Coleman Middle School Wichita | 631 | 84.3% | 12.2% |
| Curtis Middle School Wichita | 846 | 92.3% | 9.6% |
| Eisenhower Middle School Topeka | 440 | 86.6% | 6.3% |
| Mead Middle School Wichita | 678 | 95.6% | 10.6% |
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 Brooks Magnet Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.9% | #165 of 192 | #20 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #172 of 192 | #22 of 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #168 of 192 | #22 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 578 | #64 of 225 | #18 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #150 of 161 | #26 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #12 of 161 | #7 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.6% | #15 of 195 | #9 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #34 of 54 | #12 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
578
+54 (+10%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 763
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 578 | 37.1 | 15.6:1 | 86% (495) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 35.3 | 15.0:1 | 84% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 534 | 33.6 | 15.9:1 | 82% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 41 | 12.8:1 | 79% (415) |
| 2017-18 | 547 | 39.3 | 13.9:1 | 76% (416) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 42 | 13.1:1 | 75% (410) |
| 2010-11 | 629 | 42 | 15.0:1 | 72% (454) |
| 2000-01 | 699 | 43 | 16.3:1 | 44% (310) |
| 1990-91 | 763 | 44 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brooks Magnet Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (547 to 578); teachers down 6% (39.3 to 37.1).
About Brooks Magnet Middle School
Among the schools in Wichita, Kansas, is Brooks Magnet Middle School, a medium-sized middle-grades school. The student body numbers 578 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Kansas is about 402, so this school runs 44% bigger than that.
The district, Wichita, operates 87 schools serving 47,545 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Brooks Magnet Middle School. The largest is Black students, at 39%. The remaining shares are 27% Hispanic, 22% White, and 9% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Sedgwick County's population at about 8%. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 15.6:1 comes from the school's 37.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. The lunch program counts 86% of students at Brooks Magnet Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Among public schools in Sedgwick County, the average eligibility rate is 63%.
Measured against Kansas public middle schools, Brooks Magnet Middle School receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Brooks Magnet Middle School would be expected to post about 21.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.9%.
In Sedgwick County (population about 528,226), the median household income is $69,365, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. There are 160 public schools in Sedgwick County, enrolling about 84,569 students in all.
The school nearest to Brooks Magnet Middle School is Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Brooks Magnet Middle School is 2nd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 578 students in 2024-25, 54 more than the 524 it had in 2020-21. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.8:1 to 15.6:1.
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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
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- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Nearby schools
- Buckner Performing Arts Magnet Elem0.1 mi · 313
- Gordon Parks Academy1.1 mi · 485
- Mueller Aerospace/Engineering Discovery Magne1.4 mi · 304
- Wichita Alternative High1.4 mi · 133
- Jackson Elementary1.5 mi · 337
- Gammon Elem2.0 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About Brooks Magnet Middle SchoolHow large is Brooks Magnet Middle School?
Brooks Magnet Middle School enrolls approximately 578 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Brooks Magnet Middle School serve?
Brooks Magnet Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Brooks Magnet Middle School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Brooks Magnet Middle School.
How diverse is Brooks Magnet Middle School?
Brooks Magnet Middle School reports a student body of 22% White, 27% Hispanic, 39% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Brooks Magnet Middle School public or private?
Brooks Magnet Middle School 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.