Enrollment
68
Middle
DISTRICT 94 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRETTY PRAIRIE·NCES 201092000557
Pretty Prairie Middle
101 N Maple, Pretty Prairie, KS 67570 · (620) 459-6911 · Reno County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL68 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Kansas public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
13.1:1
5 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
32 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 29 | 43% |
| Grade 7 | 18 | 26% |
| Grade 8 | 21 | 31% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 15% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Pretty Prairie Middle→Pretty Prairie High
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Pretty Prairie. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
40.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
31.3%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 | 40.3% | 31.3% |
| 2023-24 | 23.7% | 18.6% |
% 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
27.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Pretty Prairie Middle
Pretty Prairie Middle's state test result (27.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pretty Prairie Middle this school | 68 | 47.1% | 27.7% |
| Udall Middle School Udall | 66 | 48.5% | 35.8% |
| Onaga Middle School Onaga | 76 | 46.1% | 40.2% |
| Ellinwood Middle School Ellinwood | 72 | 44.4% | 25.8% |
| Norton Jr High Norton | 96 | 47.9% | 20.1% |
| McLouth Middle McLouth | 91 | 46.2% | 24.6% |
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 Pretty Prairie Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Reno County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 68 | #206 of 225 | #6 of 6 |
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
68
-22 (-24%) vs 2020
+51% since 1990-91, when it was 45
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 68 | 5.2 | 13.1:1 | 47% (32) |
| 2023-24 | 99 | 6.5 | 15.2:1 | 52% (51) |
| 2022-23 | 92 | 6.1 | 15.2:1 | 45% (41) |
| 2020-21 | 90 | 6 | 15.0:1 | 40% (36) |
| 2017-18 | 90 | 5.6 | 16.1:1 | 32% (29) |
| 2015-16 | 80 | 4 | 20.0:1 | 33% (26) |
| 2010-11 | 67 | 5 | 13.4:1 | 45% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 101 | 9 | 11.2:1 | 25% (25) |
| 1990-91 | 45 | 3 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pretty Prairie Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (90 to 68); teachers down 7% (5.6 to 5.2).
About Pretty Prairie Middle
Pretty Prairie Middle is one of the public schools in Pretty Prairie, Kansas. It is a very small middle school. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 68 students. By comparison, middle schools in Kansas enroll about 402 students on average.
Federal data list 3 schools in Pretty Prairie, with 283 students enrolled.
White students are 96% of those enrolled at Pretty Prairie Middle. The rest of enrollment is 3% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Reno County's population at about 85%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 9, compared with 70 nationally.
Pretty Prairie Middle has 5.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.1:1. That is in line with the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 47% at Pretty Prairie Middle. On average, public schools in Reno County report 55%.
Pretty Prairie Middle earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 28% of Kansas public middle schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Pretty Prairie Middle falls in the middle 80% of Kansas schools: 27.7% actual against 39.7% predicted.
In Reno County, median household income comes to about $60,645, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Reno County counts 33 public schools with about 8,909 students.
Pretty Prairie High is the nearest public school to Pretty Prairie Middle, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number 2. Nearby schools with test data average 32.7% proficiency; Pretty Prairie Middle posts 27.7%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.
Enrollment fell 24% over 4 years, reaching 68 in 2024-25. The ratio was 15.0:1 in 2020-21 and 13.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Reno County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
61,553
Census ACS
Median income
$60,645
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
8,909 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pretty Prairie
- Pretty Prairie ElemElementary · 133 students
- Pretty Prairie HighHigh · 82 students
Other schools in Pretty Prairie
- Pretty Prairie ElemElementary · 133 students
- Pretty Prairie HighHigh · 82 students
Nearby schools
- Pretty Prairie High0.0 mi · 82
- Pretty Prairie Elem0.3 mi · 133
- Kingman High9.8 mi · 198
- Kingman Middle School9.8 mi · 89
- Kingman Elementary School10.6 mi · 330
- USD 331 Virtual School11.0 mi · 14
Frequently asked questions
About Pretty Prairie MiddleHow large is Pretty Prairie Middle?
Pretty Prairie Middle enrolls approximately 68 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Pretty Prairie Middle serve?
Pretty Prairie Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pretty Prairie Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pretty Prairie Middle is approximately 13.1:1 (5 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Pretty Prairie Middle?
Student demographics at Pretty Prairie Middle are roughly 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 3% Two or more.
What district is Pretty Prairie Middle in?
Pretty Prairie Middle is part of Pretty Prairie.
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