Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle

Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle is a middle school in Wichita, Kansas, and it is part of Wichita. The school enrolls 623 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Kansas is about 402, so this school runs 55% above that.

Enrollment across the 87 schools in Wichita totals 47,545 students.

Hispanic students are the largest group at Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle, with 41% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 40% White, 10% Black, and 7% multiracial. Sedgwick County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 66%.

The school employs the equivalent of 42 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 14.8:1. Among middle schools in Kansas, the typical ratio is 12.7:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 79%. Public schools in Sedgwick County average 63%.

allk12 grades Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle a C-. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.

Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle scores 18.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 24.4%.

Census estimates describe Sedgwick County this way: median household income is about $69,365, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 160 public schools in Sedgwick County, with a combined enrollment of about 84,569.

Lawrence Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, less than a tenth of a mile away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle ranks 5th of 7 nearby schools, at 18.3% versus a 20.6% average.

NCES describes the area around Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Mayberry Cultural and Fine Arts Magnet Middle went from 643 students to 623.

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