St. Paul Middle School

Located at 118 First Street, in St. Paul, Kansas, St. Paul Middle School is a rural-scale intermediate school that instructs 58 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Chetopa-St. Paul. Enrollment runs roughly 86% leaner than the state mean of about 402.

St. Paul Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Chetopa-St. Paul, a district that serves 396 students overall.

On the student-mix side, St. Paul Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Neosho County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, St. Paul Middle School logs 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at St. Paul Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), St. Paul Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +11.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Neosho County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,618 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. St. Paul Middle School is one of 10 public schools in Neosho County (combined enrollment of about 2,406 students).

St. Paul High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, St. Paul Middle School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

St. Paul Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. St. Paul Middle School's enrollment has ticked up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 53 (now 58). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 94% to 78%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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