Fort Riley Middle School

Fort Riley Middle School, a medium-sized intermediate school in Fort Riley, Kansas, operated by Geary County Schools, serves 541 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 35% bigger than typical.

Geary County Schools runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,293 students. Fort Riley Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fort Riley Middle School logs that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 13% Black, 8% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Fort Riley Middle School has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Geary County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Fort Riley Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Geary County) records that median household income runs about $59,317, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Geary County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,880 students), Fort Riley Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Morris Hill Elem, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Fort Riley Middle School. On composite proficiency, Fort Riley Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fort Riley Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 606 (now 541). Black enrollment moved from 21% to 13% across the same window.

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