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Enrollment
760
Middle
DISTRICT 615 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICHITA·NCES 201299000339
Pleasant Valley Middle School
2220 W 29th N, Wichita, KS 67204 · (316) 973-8000 · Sedgwick County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL760 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Kansas public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
702 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 252 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 253 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 255 | 34% |
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
26.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
21.5%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.3% | 21.5% |
| 2023-24 | 19.0% | 16.7% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.9%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Pleasant Valley Middle School
Pleasant Valley Middle School's state test result (17.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley Middle School this school | 760 | 92.4% | 17.4% |
| Marshall Middle School Wichita | 596 | 89.4% | 17.0% |
| Comanche Middle School Dodge City | 783 | 84.8% | 16.4% |
| Dodge City Middle School Dodge City | 808 | 82.7% | 14.3% |
| Horace J. Good Middle School Garden City | 583 | 83.4% | 18.7% |
| Seymour Rogers Middle School Liberal | 472 | 90.7% | 9.1% |
Matched among Kansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Pleasant Valley Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Sedgwick County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #169 of 192 | #22 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #158 of 192 | #20 of 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #163 of 192 | #21 of 29 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 760 | #20 of 225 | #7 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #133 of 161 | #21 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.3% | #99 of 161 | #25 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.4% | #5 of 195 | #4 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.9% | #15 of 54 | #7 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
760
+129 (+20%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 708
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 760 | 52.1 | 14.6:1 | 92% (702) |
| 2023-24 | 594 | 44 | 13.5:1 | 94% (559) |
| 2022-23 | 595 | 45.5 | 13.1:1 | 94% (562) |
| 2020-21 | 631 | 46 | 13.7:1 | 93% (589) |
| 2017-18 | 667 | 47.2 | 14.1:1 | 91% (610) |
| 2015-16 | 665 | 49 | 13.6:1 | 91% (604) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 46 | 12.8:1 | 92% (545) |
| 2000-01 | 587 | 48 | 12.2:1 | 79% (464) |
| 1990-91 | 708 | 45 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pleasant Valley Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (667 to 760); teachers up 10% (47.2 to 52.1).
About Pleasant Valley Middle School
Pleasant Valley Middle School is a large middle school in Wichita, Kansas, (ZIP code 67204). The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 760 students. That is 89% above the average of about 402 students for middle schools in Kansas.
Pleasant Valley Middle School is one of 87 schools in Wichita, which enrolls 47,545 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at Pleasant Valley Middle School is Hispanic: 74%. The remaining shares are 16% White, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. Sedgwick County as a whole is about 17% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pleasant Valley Middle School scores 42%.
Pleasant Valley Middle School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1, with 52.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in Kansas average 12.7:1. The school has 92% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Sedgwick County is 63%.
Among Kansas public middle schools, Pleasant Valley Middle School outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 17.9% at Pleasant Valley Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 17.4%.
Looking at the county, Sedgwick County, the median household earns about $69,365 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Sedgwick County has 160 public schools with about 84,569 students, including Pleasant Valley Middle School.
Pleasant Valley Elem is the nearest public school to Pleasant Valley Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Pleasant Valley Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Pleasant Valley Middle School comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Pleasant Valley Middle School has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 631 (2020-21) to 760 (2024-25).
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Sedgwick County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
528,226
Census ACS
Median income
$69,365
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
84,569 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 1,424 students
Other schools in Wichita
- East HighHigh · 2,435 students
- Southeast HighHigh · 2,066 students
- North HighHigh · 2,041 students
- Campus High HaysvilleHigh · 1,803 students
- South HighHigh · 1,662 students
- Heights HighHigh · 1,505 students
Other Pleasant Valley Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Pleasant Valley Middle. Pleasant Valley Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Pleasant Valley Middle SchoolBrodheadsville, PA · 908 students
- Pleasant Valley MiddleVANCOUVER, WA · 447 students
- Pleasant Valley MiddlePlacerville, CA · 117 students
Nearby schools
- Pleasant Valley Elem0.1 mi · 308
- McLean Science/Tech Magnet Elem0.9 mi · 262
- Cloud Elem1.1 mi · 580
- Ortiz Elementary School1.3 mi · 323
- Woodland Health / Wellness Magnet Elem1.9 mi · 347
- Earhart Environ Magnet Elem2.1 mi · 471
Frequently asked questions
About Pleasant Valley Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Pleasant Valley Middle School?
Pleasant Valley Middle School enrolls approximately 760 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Pleasant Valley Middle School serve?
Pleasant Valley Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Pleasant Valley Middle School have?
Pleasant Valley Middle School employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Pleasant Valley Middle School?
Student demographics at Pleasant Valley Middle School are roughly 16% White, 74% Hispanic, 6% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Pleasant Valley Middle School public or private?
Pleasant Valley Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Wichita.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.