Chapman Middle School

Chapman Middle School is a middle-grades school of small scale in Chapman, Kansas, overseen by Chapman, works with 250 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 38% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Across the 6 schools in Chapman (1,134 students total), Chapman Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Chapman Middle School logs that nearly all students (89%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Chapman Middle School lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Chapman Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dickinson County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Chapman Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dickinson County reports that median household income runs about $68,417, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Chapman Middle School is one of 19 public schools in Dickinson County (combined enrollment of about 3,530 students).

Chapman High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Chapman Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chapman Middle School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.4%.

Chapman Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 10%: 228 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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