Herington Middle Sch

As a minimally staffed middle school in Herington, Kansas, Herington Middle Sch enrolls 87 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Herington. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Herington Middle Sch sits 78% leaner than that benchmark.

Herington comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 414 students; Herington Middle Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Herington Middle Sch shows that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder is composed of 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 91% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dickinson County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Herington Middle Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.2%, the actual is 25.1%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dickinson County indicate median household income runs about $68,417, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dickinson County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,530 students), Herington Middle Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Herington High, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Herington Middle Sch at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Herington Middle Sch's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 111 (now 87). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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