Kenneth Henderson Middle

Kenneth Henderson Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Garden City, Kansas, run under Garden City. Current enrollment sits at 425 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Kenneth Henderson Middle is one of 18 schools operated by Garden City, a district that serves 7,032 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kenneth Henderson Middle logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school records 17% White, 5% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 53% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kenneth Henderson Middle has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Kenneth Henderson Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -4.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Finney County shows median household income runs about $73,009, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Finney County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,939 students), Kenneth Henderson Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Florence Wilson Elem, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kenneth Henderson Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kenneth Henderson Middle has grew 15%, going from 370 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 24% to 17% across the same window.

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