Pittsburg Middle School

Pittsburg Middle School is a large junior high in Pittsburg, Kansas, operated by Pittsburg. The school serves 692 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Pittsburg Middle School sits 72% bigger than that benchmark.

Pittsburg comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,375 students; Pittsburg Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pittsburg Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 74% of students at Pittsburg Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pittsburg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.8%, the actual is 32.2%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Across the wider county, Crawford County reports that median household earnings sit near $52,844, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Crawford County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,146 students), Pittsburg Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Westside Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pittsburg Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pittsburg Middle School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Pittsburg Middle School's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 692). The White share of enrollment shrank from 68% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Pittsburg Middle School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.