Enrollment
193
Middle
DISTRICT 274 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHENEY·NCES 200467000394
Cheney Middle School 6-8
715 N. Main, Cheney, KS 67025 · (316) 542-0060 · Sedgwick County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL193 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of Kansas public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+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
14.4:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
43 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 6 | 66 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 64 | 33% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · 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
Cheney Middle School 6-8→Cheney High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Cheney. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
62.2%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
69.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 | 62.2% | 69.9% |
| 2023-24 | 51.4% | 51.4% |
% 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
61.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Cheney Middle School 6-8
Cheney Middle School 6-8's state test result (61.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheney Middle School 6-8 this school | 193 | 22.3% | 61.5% |
| Pleasant Ridge Middle Easton | 173 | 19.7% | 38.8% |
| Hesston Middle Hesston | 273 | 25.6% | 56.9% |
| Louisburg Middle Louisburg | 378 | 21.2% | 56.3% |
| Wellsville Middle School Wellsville | 167 | 34.1% | 31.9% |
| Wamego Middle School Wamego | 385 | 28.8% | 42.5% |
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 Cheney Middle School 6-8 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #5 of 192 | #1 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.9% | #6 of 192 | #1 of 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #19 of 192 | #1 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 193 | #164 of 225 | #31 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.3% | #170 of 195 | #30 of 31 |
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
193
+17 (+10%) vs 2020
+86% since 1990-91, when it was 104
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 193 | 13.4 | 14.4:1 | 22% (43) |
| 2023-24 | 178 | 10.6 | 16.9:1 | 30% (54) |
| 2022-23 | 176 | 10.5 | 16.8:1 | 23% (41) |
| 2020-21 | 176 | 11 | 16.0:1 | 26% (45) |
| 2017-18 | 176 | 11.9 | 14.8:1 | 32% (57) |
| 2015-16 | 181 | 16 | 11.3:1 | 31% (56) |
| 2010-11 | 179 | 12 | 14.9:1 | 24% (43) |
| 2000-01 | 197 | 12 | 16.4:1 | 15% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 104 | 5 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cheney Middle School 6-8.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (176 to 193); teachers up 13% (11.9 to 13.4).
About Cheney Middle School 6-8
Cheney Middle School 6-8, located in Cheney, Kansas, is a small middle school. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 193 students. Against the 402-student average for middle schools in Kansas, enrollment here is 52% lower.
A total of 3 schools make up Cheney, with 823 students enrolled.
White students make up 91% of enrollment at Cheney Middle School 6-8. Smaller groups are 8% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Sedgwick County is roughly 69% White. Cheney Middle School 6-8's diversity index is 17%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 13.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.4 students per teacher. That is 1.7 students per teacher above the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 22% of students. That is 41 points below the 63% average for public schools in Sedgwick County.
The allk12 Grade for Cheney Middle School 6-8 is A+. Compared with Kansas public middle schools, the school scored higher than 98% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with Cheney Middle School 6-8's lunch-eligibility share in Kansas is predicted to score 51.5%. Cheney Middle School 6-8 scores 61.5%, 10.0 points above that line.
In the county around the school, Sedgwick County, the median household income is $69,365, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Sedgwick County is home to 160 public schools and about 84,569 public school students.
The closest public school to Cheney Middle School 6-8 is Cheney High, less than a tenth of a mile away. Cheney Middle School 6-8 is one of several public schools in the area, with 2 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 48.6% proficiency; Cheney Middle School 6-8 posts 61.5%.
Locale: Rural: Distant. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 17 more students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.4:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cheney
- Cheney ElemElementary · 395 students
- Cheney HighHigh · 235 students
Other schools in Cheney
- Cheney ElemElementary · 395 students
- Cheney HighHigh · 235 students
Nearby schools
- Cheney High0.0 mi · 235
- Cheney Elem0.1 mi · 395
- Garden Plain High5.8 mi · 174
- Garden Plain Elem5.9 mi · 445
- Clark Davidson Elem11.0 mi · 462
- Challenger Intermediate School11.1 mi · 454
Frequently asked questions
About Cheney Middle School 6-8How many students attend Cheney Middle School 6-8?
Cheney Middle School 6-8 enrolls approximately 193 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Cheney Middle School 6-8 serve?
Cheney Middle School 6-8 serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cheney Middle School 6-8?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cheney Middle School 6-8 is approximately 14.4:1 (13 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cheney Middle School 6-8?
At Cheney Middle School 6-8, the student body is approximately 91% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Cheney Middle School 6-8?
Cheney Middle School 6-8 is overseen by Cheney in Sedgwick County.
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