Stucky Middle School

As a mid-tier intermediate school in Wichita, Kansas, Stucky Middle School serves 518 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Wichita. Compared to the state average of about 402 students per school, that is 29% larger than typical.

Wichita runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 47,545 students. Stucky Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Stucky Middle School shows that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 34% White, 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 8% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Stucky Middle School logs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 73% of students at Stucky Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sedgwick County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stucky Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.2%, the actual is 17.3%, a residual of -9.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Sedgwick County shows median household earnings sit near $69,365, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Sedgwick County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), of which Stucky Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Heights High, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Stucky Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Stucky Middle School's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 555 (now 518). White enrollment moved from 40% to 34% across the same window.

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