Kingman Middle School

As an one-room-style junior high in Kingman, Kansas, Kingman Middle School teaches 89 students from grades 7 through 8, operated by Kingman - Norwich. That puts it 78% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Kingman - Norwich comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 865 students; Kingman Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kingman Middle School shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 11% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kingman County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kingman Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 28.5%, a residual of -6.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kingman County indicate median household income runs about $59,842, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Kingman Middle School is one of 9 public schools in Kingman County (combined enrollment of about 1,091 students).

The closest other public school is Kingman High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Kingman Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kingman Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.1%.

Kingman Middle School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kingman Middle School has shrank 32%, going from 130 students in 2018 to 89 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 91% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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