Derby Middle Sch

Derby Middle Sch operates as a high-enrollment intermediate school in Derby, Kansas, one of the schools within Derby. Current enrollment sits at 923 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Derby Middle Sch sits 130% larger than that benchmark.

Derby Middle Sch is one of 13 schools operated by Derby, a district that serves 7,416 students overall.

Demographically, Derby Middle Sch records that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder reads as 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Sedgwick County as a whole.

On the resource side, Derby Middle Sch shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 50% 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 south of Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Derby Middle Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.3%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sedgwick County) shows that median household income runs about $69,365, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Derby Middle Sch is one of 160 public schools in Sedgwick County (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students).

El Paso Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Derby Middle Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Derby Middle Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Derby Middle Sch's enrollment has increased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 813 (now 923).

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