Indian Hills Middle

Indian Hills Middle is one of the well-populated middle schools in Prairie Village, Kansas, operated by Shawnee Mission Pub Sch, with 879 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 119% larger than typical.

Shawnee Mission Pub Sch comprises 45 schools with combined enrollment of 26,330 students; Indian Hills Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Indian Hills Middle logs that nearly all students (83%) are White. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Indian Hills Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Johnson County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indian Hills Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.6%; this one delivers 62.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Johnson County) logs that median household income runs about $109,208, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Indian Hills Middle is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Prairie Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Indian Hills Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Indian Hills Middle's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 836 (now 879). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Indian Hills Middle typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.