Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School

Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School is one of the moderately sized middle schools in Clearwater, Kansas, operated by Clearwater, with 405 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 8.

Clearwater comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,095 students; Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 34% of students at Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for Sedgwick County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School is one.

Clearwater Elementary West is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School. On composite proficiency, Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 131%: 175 students in 2018 compared to 405 in 2025.

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