Great Bend Middle School

Great Bend Middle School is one of the average-sized intermediate schools in Great Bend, Kansas, operated by Great Bend, with 438 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Great Bend runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,876 students. Great Bend Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Great Bend Middle School reports that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Great Bend Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.5%; this one delivers 24.8%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Barton County put median household earnings sit near $58,851, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Barton County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,179 students), of which Great Bend Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Elem, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Great Bend Middle School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Great Bend Middle School's enrollment has ticked up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 411 (now 438). The White share of enrollment contracted from 61% to 55% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Great Bend Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.