Enrollment
377
Middle
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDEN CITY·NCES 200639001227
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr
401 N Jennie Barker Rd, Garden City, KS 67846 · (620) 805-8300 · Finney County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL377 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 56% of Kansas public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
302 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 5 | 181 | 48% |
| Grade 6 | 192 | 51% |
| Grade 7 | 2 | 1% |
| Grade 8 | 2 | 1% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr→Garden City High School
Based on grade levels within Garden City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
29.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
23.7%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 | 29.3% | 23.7% |
| 2023-24 | 22.9% | 18.8% |
% 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
27.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.8%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% 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 Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr's state test result (27.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr this school | 377 | 80.1% | 27.0% |
| Kenneth Henderson Middle Garden City | 425 | 72.0% | 23.4% |
| Horace J. Good Middle School Garden City | 583 | 83.4% | 18.7% |
| Eisenhower Middle School Liberal | 516 | 81.6% | 15.1% |
| Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr Garden City | 367 | 80.4% | 23.2% |
| Dodge City Middle School Dodge City | 808 | 82.7% | 14.3% |
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 Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #128 of 192 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #149 of 192 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #152 of 192 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 377 | #121 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #13 of 161 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.6% | #122 of 161 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #24 of 195 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.0% | #16 of 98 |
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
377
-65 (-15%) vs 2020
-32% since 2000-01, when it was 553
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 377 | 34 | 11.1:1 | 80% (302) |
| 2023-24 | 362 | 33 | 11.0:1 | 80% (288) |
| 2022-23 | 343 | 29 | 11.8:1 | 78% (267) |
| 2020-21 | 442 | 35 | 12.6:1 | 70% (310) |
| 2017-18 | 477 | 37.3 | 12.8:1 | 75% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 405 | 34 | 11.9:1 | 75% (303) |
| 2010-11 | 444 | 41 | 10.8:1 | 79% (350) |
| 2000-01 | 553 | 33 | 16.8:1 | 56% (309) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (477 to 377); teachers down 9% (37.3 to 34).
About Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is a medium-sized middle school. Its address is in Garden City, Kansas. The school's enrollment of 377 students covers grades 5 through 8.
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is run by Garden City, whose 18 schools enroll 7,032 students.
The student body at Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is 81% Hispanic. Enrollment also includes 10% White and 6% Asian. Among people living in Finney County, the Hispanic share is about 53%. The school's diversity index is 34%, meaning two students picked at random have a 34% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Its 34 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 11.1:1. This ratio sits 1.6 below the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 80%.
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is graded B by allk12, scoring above 56% of Kansas public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr sits between the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 27.0% and a predicted 23.8%.
Census estimates describe Finney County this way: the median household income is $73,009, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr, Finney County has 22 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to Victor Ornelas Elem. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is 4th on average proficiency.
The federal government classifies Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr's location as Town: Remote.
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr's enrollment dropped from 442 in 2020-21 to 377 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 11.1:1.
Community posts for Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Finney County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
38,084
Census ACS
Median income
$73,009
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
7,939 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrMiddle · 367 students
Other schools in Garden City
- Garden City High SchoolHigh · 1,946 students
- Jennie Wilson ElemElementary · 796 students
- Horace J. Good Middle SchoolMiddle · 583 students
- Kenneth Henderson MiddleMiddle · 425 students
- Florence Wilson ElemElementary · 376 students
- Bernadine Sitts Intermediate CtrMiddle · 367 students
Nearby schools
- Victor Ornelas Elem0.2 mi · 351
- Alta Brown Elem1.6 mi · 336
- Jennie Wilson Elem1.7 mi · 796
- Kenneth Henderson Middle2.0 mi · 425
- Garden City High School2.0 mi · 1,946
- Florence Wilson Elem2.2 mi · 376
Frequently asked questions
About Charles O Stones Intermediate CtrHow many students attend Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr?
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr enrolls approximately 377 students in grades 05-08.
Is Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr an elementary, middle, or high school?
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is approximately 11.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr?
Student demographics at Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr are roughly 10% White, 81% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr?
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr is overseen by Garden City in Finney County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.