Harmony Middle

Harmony Middle is a middle school of average-sized scale in Overland Park, Kansas, run under Blue Valley, works with 536 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Harmony Middle sits 33% above that benchmark.

Within Blue Valley, which oversees 40 schools and 22,491 students, Harmony Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Harmony Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 20% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 12% of students at Harmony Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Harmony Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 57.2%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Harmony Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harmony Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harmony Middle at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 67.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Harmony Middle's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 560 (now 536). The White share of enrollment edged down from 68% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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