Valley Center Middle School

Valley Center Middle School operates as a big middle school in Valley Center, Kansas, one of the schools within Valley Center Pub Sch. Current enrollment sits at 802 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 100% above the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 402 students.

Within Valley Center Pub Sch, which oversees 7 schools and 3,177 students, Valley Center Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Valley Center Middle School reports that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Valley Center Middle School has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sedgwick County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Valley Center Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of -7.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sedgwick County shows median household income runs about $69,365, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Valley Center Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Valley Center Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Valley Center Middle School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 80%: 446 students in 2018 compared to 802 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 81% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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