Enrollment
393
Middle
DISTRICT 575 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DE SOTO·NCES 200549000906
Lexington Trails Middle School
8800 Penner Avenue, De Soto, KS 66018 · (913) 667-6260 · Johnson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
124 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
66.2%
KS avg 44.5% . +15.5pp since 2023
Math
65.1%
KS avg 38.8% . +7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
393
+39 (+11%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 12.0:1
% White
75%
was 78%
% Hispanic
20%
was 19%
% Black
1%
was 1%
% Asian
1%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Lexington Trails Middle School
Lexington Trails Middle School is a reasonably sized middle-grades school in De Soto, Kansas, part of De Soto. The school serves 393 students in grades 6 through 8.
Across the 13 schools in De Soto (7,067 students total), Lexington Trails Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Lexington Trails Middle School reports that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Lexington Trails Middle School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 32% of students at Lexington Trails Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lexington Trails Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 60.0%, a residual of +12.9 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,208, roughly 58% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lexington Trails Middle School is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).
Nearest neighbor: De Soto High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Lexington Trails Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. Lexington Trails Middle School's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 354 (now 393).
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
620,631
Census ACS
Median income
$109,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
93,598 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in De Soto
- Mill Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,432 students
- De Soto High SchoolHigh · 918 students
- Mill Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 676 students
- Monticello Trails Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Mize Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Clear Creek ElemElementary · 461 students
Other schools in De Soto
- De Soto High SchoolHigh · 918 students
- Starside ElemElementary · 428 students
- Virtual Education ProgramHigh · 26 students
Nearby schools
- De Soto High School0.2 mi · 918
- Virtual Education Program0.4 mi · 26
- Starside Elem0.4 mi · 428
- Linwood Elementary School5.3 mi · 248
- Mill Creek Middle School5.7 mi · 676
- Eudora Elementary School5.8 mi · 650
Frequently asked questions
About Lexington Trails Middle SchoolHow large is Lexington Trails Middle School?
Lexington Trails Middle School enrolls approximately 393 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Lexington Trails Middle School serve?
Lexington Trails Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Lexington Trails Middle School have?
Lexington Trails Middle School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Lexington Trails Middle School?
Student demographics at Lexington Trails Middle School are roughly 75% White, 20% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Lexington Trails Middle School public or private?
Lexington Trails Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by De Soto.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.