Leawood Middle

Leawood Middle, a middle-of-the-pack junior high in Leawood, Kansas, run under Blue Valley, enrolls 493 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Leawood Middle sits 23% larger than that benchmark.

Blue Valley comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 22,491 students; Leawood Middle is among them.

Demographically, Leawood Middle reports that nearly all students (82%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Johnson County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Leawood Middle reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 8% 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Leawood Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.5%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Johnson County put median household earnings sit near $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Leawood Middle is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

Nearest neighbor: Leawood Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Leawood Middle comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.9%.

Leawood Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 6%: 467 students in 2018 compared to 493 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.