Wamego Middle School

Wamego Middle School is an intermediate school of mid-sized scale in Wamego, Kansas, operated by Wamego, enrolling 385 students in grades 6 through 8.

Wamego Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Wamego, a district that teaches 1,617 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wamego Middle School records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Pottawatomie County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Wamego Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Pottawatomie County) records that median household income runs about $92,325, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Wamego Middle School is one of 16 public schools in Pottawatomie County (combined enrollment of about 4,283 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wamego High School Virtual School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Wamego Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wamego Middle School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 47.6%.

Wamego Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Wamego Middle School's enrollment has climbed 7% since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 385). Class-load math has grew: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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