Piper Middle

Piper Middle operates as a roomy 6-8 campus in Kansas City, Kansas, one of the schools within Piper-Kansas City. Current enrollment sits at 680 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 69% larger than typical.

Within Piper-Kansas City, which oversees 4 schools and 2,835 students, Piper Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Piper Middle records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 17% Hispanic, 14% Black, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Wyandotte County as a whole is about 42% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Wyandotte County's rate of about 75%.

After controlling for student poverty, Piper Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Wyandotte County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Wyandotte County runs 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), of which Piper Middle is one.

Piper Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Piper Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 24%: 547 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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