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Spring Hill Middle School
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Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Spring Hill Middle School
Spring Hill Middle School is one of the close-knit 6-8 campuss in Spring Hill, Kansas, one of the schools within Spring Hill, with 288 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 28% below the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.
Within Spring Hill, which oversees 11 schools and 5,841 students, Spring Hill Middle School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Spring Hill Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Spring Hill Middle School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 33% of students at Spring Hill Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spring Hill Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Miami County put the typical household earns roughly $89,000 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spring Hill Middle School is one of 17 public schools in Miami County (combined enrollment of about 6,529 students).
Kansas Virtual Academy (KSVA) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Spring Hill Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring Hill Middle School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 55.5%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Five-year trend. Spring Hill Middle School's enrollment has declined 58% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 288). The White share of enrollment decreased from 87% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.
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