El Dorado Middle

As a moderately sized middle school in El Dorado, Kansas, El Dorado Middle educates 370 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by El Dorado.

El Dorado comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,756 students; El Dorado Middle is among them.

On demographics, El Dorado Middle records that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

In terms of school funding signals, El Dorado Middle reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Butler County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, El Dorado Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.4%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Butler County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,610 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Butler County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,052 students), of which El Dorado Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grandview Elem, around 0.4 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts El Dorado Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.8%.

El Dorado Middle operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. El Dorado Middle's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 370). Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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