Enrollment
87
Middle
DISTRICT 138 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HERINGTON·NCES 200711001308
Herington Middle Sch
1317 N D Street, Herington, KS 67449 · (785) 258-2448 · Dickinson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL87 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Kansas public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
7 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
60 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 26 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 33 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 28 | 32% |
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Herington Middle Sch→Herington High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Herington. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
27.0%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
27.8%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 27.8% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 18.9% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.2%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Herington Middle Sch
Herington Middle Sch's state test result (25.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herington Middle Sch this school | 87 | 69.0% | 25.1% |
| Southeast Middle School Cherokee | 128 | 70.3% | 24.2% |
| Galesburg Middle School Galesburg | 112 | 66.1% | 27.8% |
| Everest Middle Everest | 151 | 64.2% | 27.4% |
| Galena Middle School Galena | 174 | 66.1% | 37.1% |
| Kingman Middle School Kingman | 89 | 57.3% | 28.5% |
Matched among Kansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Herington Middle Sch ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 87 | #201 of 225 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
87
-20 (-19%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 132
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 21.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87 | 6.7 | 13.0:1 | 69% (60) |
| 2023-24 | 94 | 7.7 | 12.2:1 | 70% (66) |
| 2022-23 | 112 | 5.8 | 19.4:1 | 74% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 107 | 5 | 21.4:1 | 53% (57) |
| 2017-18 | 111 | 6.2 | 17.9:1 | 72% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 95 | 8 | 11.9:1 | 64% (61) |
| 2010-11 | 91 | 9 | 10.1:1 | 49% (45) |
| 2000-01 | 122 | 11 | 11.1:1 | 39% (47) |
| 1990-91 | 132 | 10 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Herington Middle Sch.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (111 to 87); teachers up 8% (6.2 to 6.7).
About Herington Middle Sch
Herington Middle Sch sits in Herington, Kansas, and is classified as a middle-grades school. Federal data show 87 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 402 students for middle schools in Kansas.
Herington is responsible for 3 schools, Herington Middle Sch included, with 414 students in all.
About 78% of the student body at Herington Middle Sch is White. Other students are 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black, and 2% Native American. By comparison, Dickinson County residents are about 91% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 38, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 6.7 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.0:1. That is in line with the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 69%. It compares with 49% for public schools in Dickinson County.
Herington Middle Sch holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 37% of Kansas public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Herington Middle Sch is 4.1 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 25.1% actual, 29.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Kansas.
In the surrounding county, Dickinson County, the median household earns about $68,417 a year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Dickinson County has 19 public schools with about 3,530 students, including Herington Middle Sch.
The closest school to Herington Middle Sch is Herington High, located less than a tenth of a mile away. Herington Middle Sch is one of several public schools in the area, with 2 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 38.0% on proficiency, and Herington Middle Sch is below that at 25.1%.
The NCES locale for Herington Middle Sch is Rural: Remote, which covers schools in rural territory far from an urban area.
In 2020-21, Herington Middle Sch enrolled 107 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 87. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 21.4:1 to 13.0:1.
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Dickinson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
18,445
Census ACS
Median income
$68,417
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
19
3,530 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Herington
- Herington ElemElementary · 186 students
- Herington HighHigh · 141 students
Other schools in Herington
- Herington ElemElementary · 186 students
- Herington HighHigh · 141 students
Nearby schools
- Herington High0.1 mi · 141
- Herington Elem0.1 mi · 186
- Hope Elem7.1 mi · 74
- Hope High7.1 mi · 33
- Kansas Online Learning Program11.3 mi · 380
- Centre11.3 mi · 183
Frequently asked questions
About Herington Middle SchHow large is Herington Middle Sch?
Herington Middle Sch enrolls approximately 87 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Herington Middle Sch serve?
Herington Middle Sch serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Herington Middle Sch?
Approximately 13.0:1 students per teacher at Herington Middle Sch.
How diverse is Herington Middle Sch?
Herington Middle Sch reports a student body of 78% White, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Herington Middle Sch?
Herington Middle Sch is overseen by Herington in Dickinson County.
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