Santa Fe Trail Middle School

As a big middle-grades school in Olathe, Kansas, Santa Fe Trail Middle School educates 623 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by Olathe. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Santa Fe Trail Middle School sits 55% larger than that benchmark.

Olathe runs 52 schools in total, collectively educating 28,194 students. Santa Fe Trail Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Santa Fe Trail Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 37% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Santa Fe Trail Middle School lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Johnson County (around 27%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Santa Fe Trail Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 29.9%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,208 per year, about 58% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Santa Fe Trail Middle School is one of 168 public schools in Johnson County (combined enrollment of about 93,598 students).

The closest other public school is Washington Elem, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Santa Fe Trail Middle School. On composite proficiency, Santa Fe Trail Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

Santa Fe Trail Middle School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Santa Fe Trail Middle School's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 732 (now 623). Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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