Turner Middle School

Turner Middle School is a middle school of mid-tier scale in Kansas City, Kansas, overseen by Turner-Kansas City, caters to 585 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Turner Middle School sits 46% larger than that benchmark.

Turner-Kansas City comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,865 students; Turner Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Turner Middle School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 15% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Turner Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Turner Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 17.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Wyandotte County) shows that median household income runs about $63,631, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Turner Middle School is one of 62 public schools in Wyandotte County (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students).

Turner Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Turner Middle School. On composite proficiency, Turner Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Turner Middle School has declined 10%, going from 648 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 38% to 26%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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