Mead Middle School

Mead Middle School is one of the well-populated 6-8 campuss in Wichita, Kansas, overseen by Wichita, with 678 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 69% larger than typical.

Mead Middle School is one of 87 schools operated by Wichita, a district that instructs 47,545 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mead Middle School lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 24% Black, 16% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 17% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Mead Middle School has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mead Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 16.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 10.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Sedgwick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Mead Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Chisholm Life Skills Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mead Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 15.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 22%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 678 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 22% to 16%.

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