Prairie Star Middle

As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in Leawood, Kansas, Prairie Star Middle educates 438 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Blue Valley.

Across the 40 schools in Blue Valley (22,491 students total), Prairie Star Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prairie Star Middle reports that White students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 15% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Prairie Star Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 64.4%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Johnson County) reports that median household earnings sit near $109,208, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Johnson County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students), of which Prairie Star Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Prairie Star Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Prairie Star Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

Prairie Star Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Prairie Star Middle's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 438). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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