Seymour Rogers Middle School

Seymour Rogers Middle School operates as a mid-sized middle-grades school in Liberal, Kansas, part of Liberal. Current enrollment sits at 472 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 8 schools in Liberal (4,653 students total), Seymour Rogers Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Seymour Rogers Middle School logs that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Seymour Rogers Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.8%, the actual is 9.1%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Seward County shows median household earnings sit near $63,827, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Seward County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,115 students), of which Seymour Rogers Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Prairie View Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Seymour Rogers Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025.

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