Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr

Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is one of the medium-sized junior highs in Garden City, Kansas, run under Garden City, with 377 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8.

Garden City comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 7,032 students; Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is among them.

Demographically, Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr shows that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 10% White, 6% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.8%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of +3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Finney County reports that median household income runs about $73,009, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is one of 23 public schools in Finney County (combined enrollment of about 7,939 students).

Nearest neighbor: Victor Ornelas Elem, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr has ticked down 21%, going from 477 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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