Pioneer Ridge Middle School

Set in Gardner, Kansas, Pioneer Ridge Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school, run under Gardner Edgerton. It teaches 548 students across grades 5 through 8. That puts it 36% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Gardner Edgerton runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,854 students. Pioneer Ridge Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Pioneer Ridge Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school records 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Johnson County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Pioneer Ridge Middle School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pioneer Ridge Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 43.6%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Johnson County shows median household income runs about $109,208, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Pioneer Ridge Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Madison Elementary, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pioneer Ridge Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Pioneer Ridge Middle School's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 548).

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