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Enrollment
821
Middle
DISTRICT 616 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KANSAS CITY·NCES 200795001415
Carl B. Bruce Middle School
2100 N 18th St, Kansas City, KS 66104 · (913) 627-4000 · Wyandotte County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL821 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 4% of Kansas public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
15.3:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
745 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 | 262 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 300 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 259 | 32% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
19.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
10.6%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 | 19.3% | 10.6% |
| 2023-24 | 9.0% | 5.2% |
% 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
8.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 9% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Carl B. Bruce Middle School
Carl B. Bruce Middle School's state test result (8.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl B. Bruce Middle School this school | 821 | 90.7% | 8.8% |
| Gloria Willis Middle School Kansas City | 737 | 85.8% | 9.7% |
| Mead Middle School Wichita | 678 | 95.6% | 10.6% |
| Eisenhower Middle School Topeka | 440 | 86.6% | 6.3% |
| Rosedale Middle Kansas City | 501 | 86.4% | 8.6% |
| Hamilton Middle School Wichita | 604 | 95.9% | 7.8% |
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 Carl B. Bruce Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Wyandotte County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.8% | #185 of 192 | #7 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #183 of 192 | #6 of 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #179 of 192 | #6 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 821 | #10 of 225 | #1 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #143 of 161 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #71 of 161 | #8 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #8 of 195 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +73.6% | #2 of 54 | N/A |
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
821
-81 (-9%) vs 2020
+75% since 1990-91, when it was 469
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 821 | 53.6 | 15.3:1 | 91% (745) |
| 2023-24 | 835 | 47.8 | 17.5:1 | 85% (707) |
| 2022-23 | 837 | 50.3 | 16.7:1 | 86% (721) |
| 2020-21 | 902 | 56 | 16.1:1 | 91% (824) |
| 2017-18 | 473 | 35.7 | 13.3:1 | 89% (423) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 43 | 13.6:1 | 91% (535) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 28 | 14.4:1 | 98% (392) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 26 | 20.6:1 | 85% (455) |
| 1990-91 | 469 | 29 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Carl B. Bruce Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 74% (473 to 821); teachers up 50% (35.7 to 53.6).
About Carl B. Bruce Middle School
Among the schools in Kansas City, Kansas, is Carl B. Bruce Middle School, a large middle school. The school had 821 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (middle schools in Kansas) has about 402 students.
Kansas City counts 43 schools and 21,538 students, including Carl B. Bruce Middle School.
Hispanic students account for 65% of enrollment at Carl B. Bruce Middle School. Enrollment also includes 26% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% White. The school's Hispanic share is 31 points above the 34% share among Wyandotte County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Carl B. Bruce Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 51%.
Carl B. Bruce Middle School employs 53.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.3:1. That ratio is over the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 91% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Wyandotte County average 75%.
Carl B. Bruce Middle School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 4% of Kansas public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, Carl B. Bruce Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 8.8%; the prediction is 18.7%.
Census estimates describe Wyandotte County this way: median household income is about $63,631, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Wyandotte County number 62 and enroll about 30,713.
Nearest public school: Chelsea Elem, about 0.6 miles away. The five-mile area around Carl B. Bruce Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Carl B. Bruce Middle School's average proficiency of 8.8% compares with 17.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).
The student count in 2024-25 was 821, 9% below the 902 of 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Wyandotte County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
167,654
Census ACS
Median income
$63,631
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
62
30,713 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kansas City
- Wyandotte HighHigh · 1,903 students
- Silver City ElemElementary · 1,495 students
- J C Harmon HighHigh · 1,285 students
- Washington HighHigh · 1,180 students
- Sumner Academy of Arts & ScienceHigh · 1,045 students
- F L Schlagle HighHigh · 841 students
Other schools in Kansas City
- Wyandotte HighHigh · 1,903 students
- Silver City ElemElementary · 1,495 students
- J C Harmon HighHigh · 1,285 students
- Washington HighHigh · 1,180 students
- Turner HighHigh · 1,147 students
- Sumner Academy of Arts & ScienceHigh · 1,045 students
Nearby schools
- Chelsea Elem0.6 mi · 557
- Bertram Caruthers Elem0.7 mi · 364
- Quindaro Elem1.1 mi · 325
- Bridges/Wyandot Academy1.1 mi · 15
- Mark Twain Elem1.1 mi · 222
- School for Blind High1.2 mi · 27
Frequently asked questions
About Carl B. Bruce Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Carl B. Bruce Middle School?
Carl B. Bruce Middle School enrolls approximately 821 students in grades 06-08.
Is Carl B. Bruce Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Carl B. Bruce Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Carl B. Bruce Middle School have?
Carl B. Bruce Middle School employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Carl B. Bruce Middle School?
Student demographics at Carl B. Bruce Middle School are roughly 2% White, 65% Hispanic, 26% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Carl B. Bruce Middle School in?
Carl B. Bruce Middle School is part of Kansas City.
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