Midland Trail

Located at 3101 South 51st Street, in Kansas City, Kansas, Midland Trail is an expansive K-5 school that serves 495 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Turner-Kansas City. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 313 students each, so Midland Trail sits 58% above that benchmark.

Turner-Kansas City runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,865 students. Midland Trail is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Midland Trail logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Black, 18% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Midland Trail has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Wyandotte County's rate of about 75%.

With demographic context factored in, Midland Trail ranks in the top 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 19.9%; Midland Trail posts 36.3%, +16.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wyandotte County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Wyandotte County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), Midland Trail is one campus in the mix.

Oak Grove Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Midland Trail ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Midland Trail has ticked down 13%, going from 572 students in 2018 to 495 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 18% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.