Shawnee Heights Middle

Shawnee Heights Middle is a reasonably sized middle school in Tecumseh, Kansas, part of Shawnee Heights. The school teaches 540 students in grades 7 through 8. That puts it 34% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Within Shawnee Heights, which oversees 6 schools and 3,646 students, Shawnee Heights Middle is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Shawnee Heights Middle reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Shawnee County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Shawnee Heights Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Shawnee County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Shawnee Heights Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.8%; this one delivers 34.9%.

Zooming out to the county, Shawnee County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,104, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Shawnee Heights Middle is one of 54 public schools in Shawnee County (combined enrollment of about 26,294 students).

Shawnee Heights High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shawnee Heights Middle at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Shawnee Heights Middle's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 571 (now 540). The White share of enrollment decreased from 70% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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