Hutchinson Middle School 8

As a close-knit junior high in Hutchinson, Kansas, Hutchinson Middle School 8 works with 264 students from grades 7 through 8, run under Hutchinson Public Schools. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Hutchinson Middle School 8 sits 34% below that benchmark.

Across the 10 schools in Hutchinson Public Schools (3,957 students total), Hutchinson Middle School 8 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Hutchinson Middle School 8 logs that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hutchinson Middle School 8 has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Hutchinson Middle School 8 tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at Hutchinson Middle School 8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Reno County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hutchinson Middle School 8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.9%, the actual is 17.9%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Reno County put median household income runs about $60,645, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Reno County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,909 students), Hutchinson Middle School 8 is one campus in the mix.

Hutchinson Magnet School at Allen is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hutchinson Middle School 8. On composite proficiency, Hutchinson Middle School 8 comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hutchinson Middle School 8 has declined 26%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 264 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 26% to 20%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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