Eisenhower Middle School

Set in Topeka, Kansas, Eisenhower Middle School is a reasonably sized junior high, part of Topeka Public Schools. It serves 440 students across grades 6 through 8.

Topeka Public Schools comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 11,695 students; Eisenhower Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eisenhower Middle School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% Black, 16% multiracial, 14% White. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Eisenhower Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Eisenhower Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Shawnee County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Eisenhower Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.7%; this one delivers 6.3%.

Across the wider county, census data for Shawnee County shows median household income runs about $67,104, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Eisenhower Middle School is one of 54 public schools in Shawnee County (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ross Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eisenhower Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eisenhower Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 17.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Eisenhower Middle School's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 546 (now 440). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 38% to 47%.

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