Chase Middle School

Chase Middle School is one of the middle-of-the-pack middle schools in Topeka, Kansas, part of Topeka Public Schools, with 390 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Topeka Public Schools comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 11,695 students; Chase Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Chase Middle School lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 26% White, 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Chase Middle School lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Chase Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Shawnee County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Chase Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.3%, the actual is 15.3%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Shawnee County put median household earnings sit near $67,104, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shawnee County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students), of which Chase Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: State Street Elem, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chase Middle School. On composite proficiency, Chase Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 15%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 390 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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