Halstead Middle School

Halstead Middle School is a middle school of moderately sized scale in Halstead, Kansas, run under Halstead, works with 346 students in grades 4 through 8.

Halstead comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 786 students; Halstead Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Halstead Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Halstead Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.5%; this one delivers 41.5%.

In the broader community, census data for Harvey County shows median household income runs about $74,368, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Halstead Middle School is one of 18 public schools in Harvey County (combined enrollment of about 5,012 students).

The closest other public school is Halstead High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Halstead Middle School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Halstead Middle School has edged up 12%, going from 308 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025.

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