Coleman Middle School

Coleman Middle School is a 6-8 campus of heavily attended scale in Wichita, Kansas, one of the schools within Wichita, caters to 631 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 57% bigger than the state mean of about 402.

Within Wichita, which oversees 87 schools and 47,545 students, Coleman Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Coleman Middle School shows that the most-represented group is Black (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% White, 24% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Coleman Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Coleman Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 12.2%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Sedgwick County put the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Coleman Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Price-Harris Communications Magnet is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Coleman Middle School at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Coleman Middle School's enrollment has increased 29% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 631). Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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