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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Mead Middle School this year?
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Enrollment
678
Middle
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299001919
Mead Middle School
2601 E Skinner, Wichita, KS 67211 · (316) 973-8500 · Sedgwick County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL678 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Kansas public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
648 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 232 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 215 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 231 | 34% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
15.0%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
13.9%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.0% | 13.9% |
| 2023-24 | 9.4% | 5.1% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
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
10.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.4%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 16% 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 →
Schools most like Mead Middle School
Mead Middle School's state test result (10.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mead Middle School this school | 678 | 95.6% | 10.6% |
| Curtis Middle School Wichita | 846 | 92.3% | 9.6% |
| Gloria Willis Middle School Kansas City | 737 | 85.8% | 9.7% |
| Carl B. Bruce Middle School Kansas City | 821 | 90.7% | 8.8% |
| Hamilton Middle School Wichita | 604 | 95.9% | 7.8% |
| Truesdell Middle School Wichita | 924 | 91.8% | 8.1% |
Matched among Kansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mead Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #180 of 192 | #26 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #177 of 192 | #25 of 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #184 of 192 | #26 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 678 | #36 of 225 | #10 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #95 of 161 | #13 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.9% | #16 of 161 | #10 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.6% | #3 of 195 | #2 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.5% | #10 of 54 | #4 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
678
+127 (+23%) vs 2020
+30% since 2010-11, when it was 520
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 678 | 50.2 | 13.5:1 | 96% (648) |
| 2023-24 | 500 | 39.9 | 12.5:1 | 94% (471) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 41.7 | 13.0:1 | 93% (507) |
| 2020-21 | 551 | 44 | 12.5:1 | 93% (510) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 44.3 | 12.6:1 | 84% (466) |
| 2015-16 | 527 | 45 | 11.7:1 | 90% (474) |
| 2010-11 | 520 | 39 | 13.3:1 | 91% (474) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mead Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (558 to 678); teachers up 13% (44.3 to 50.2).
About Mead Middle School
Mead Middle School is a middle-grades school in Wichita, Kansas, according to federal school records. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 678 students in 2024-25. Middle schools in Kansas average about 402 students, which makes this school 69% bigger than average.
Wichita is the local district for Mead Middle School. It runs 87 schools with 47,545 students.
The largest group at Mead Middle School is Hispanic students, at 47%. The school is also 24% Black, 16% White, 6% multiracial, and 6% Asian. That is higher than the 17% Hispanic share among all Sedgwick County residents. The diversity index for Mead Middle School is 69%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 50.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Kansas is 12.7:1. The school reported 96% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 63% average for public schools in Sedgwick County is 33 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Mead Middle School lands at D, ahead of 14% of Kansas public middle schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 16.4% at Mead Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 10.6%.
For Sedgwick County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $69,365, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 160 public schools and about 84,569 students.
Chisholm Life Skills Center is about 0.3 miles from Mead Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Mead Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Mead Middle School comes in 6th of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
From 551 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 678 by 2024-25.
Mead Middle School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
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- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 1,424 students
Other schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- Campus High HaysvilleHigh · 1,803 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Other Mead Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mead Middle. Mead Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mead Middle SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 910 students
- Mead Middle SchoolMEAD, CO · 571 students
Nearby schools
- Chisholm Life Skills Center0.3 mi · 96
- Linwood Elementary0.7 mi · 452
- Griffith Elem0.9 mi · 370
- Gardiner Elem1.0 mi · 405
- Sowers Alternative High School1.1 mi · 60
- Jardine Technology Middle Magnet1.2 mi · 499
Frequently asked questions
About Mead Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mead Middle School?
Mead Middle School enrolls approximately 678 students in grades 06-08.
Is Mead Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mead Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Mead Middle School have?
Mead Middle School employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5:1.
How diverse is Mead Middle School?
Mead Middle School reports a student body of 16% White, 47% Hispanic, 24% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Mead Middle School public or private?
Mead Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wichita.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.