Southeast Middle School

Southeast Middle School is one of the one-room-style 6-8 campuss in Cherokee, Kansas, one of the schools within Cherokee, with 128 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 68% smaller than the state mean of about 402.

Within Cherokee, which oversees 3 schools and 429 students, Southeast Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Southeast Middle School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Southeast Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Crawford County's rate of about 62%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Southeast Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.5%; this one delivers 24.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Crawford County shows median household income runs about $52,844, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Crawford County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,146 students), of which Southeast Middle School is one.

Southeast High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Southeast Middle School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.2%.

Southeast Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 156 students in 2018 compared to 128 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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