Marvin Sisk Middle School

As a rural-scale junior high in Douglass, Kansas, Marvin Sisk Middle School educates 118 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Douglass Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 71% smaller than the state mean of about 402.

Douglass Public Schools comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 587 students; Marvin Sisk Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Marvin Sisk Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Marvin Sisk Middle School has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.3:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Butler County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, Marvin Sisk Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.7%; this one delivers 34.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Butler County indicate median household earnings sit near $81,610, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Butler County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,052 students), of which Marvin Sisk Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Douglass High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Marvin Sisk Middle School. On composite proficiency, Marvin Sisk Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Marvin Sisk Middle School's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 155 (now 118). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 90% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 8.3:1 today.

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