Norwich Middle School

Norwich Middle School is one of the very small middle-grades schools in Norwich, Kansas, run under Kingman - Norwich, with 44 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 89% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Kingman - Norwich runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 865 students. Norwich Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Norwich Middle School shows that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, Norwich Middle School shows 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Norwich Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Norwich Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Kingman County) logs that median household earnings sit near $59,842, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kingman County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,091 students), of which Norwich Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Norwich High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Norwich Middle School. On composite proficiency, Norwich Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 25%: 59 students in 2018 compared to 44 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 93% to 86% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.