Clay Center Community Middle

Clay Center Community Middle operates as a cozy junior high in Clay Center, Kansas, operated by Clay County. Current enrollment sits at 226 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 44% smaller than the state mean of about 402.

Across the 6 schools in Clay County (1,272 students total), Clay Center Community Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clay Center Community Middle reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Clay County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Clay Center Community Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -11.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,176 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clay County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,272 students), of which Clay Center Community Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clay Center Community High, around 0.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clay Center Community Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.

Clay Center Community Middle operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.