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Enrollment
517
Middle
DISTRICT 581 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GARDNER EDGERTON·NCES 200642001878
Wheatridge Middle School
318 E. Washington Street, Gardner, KS 66030 · (913) 856-2900 · Johnson County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL517 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 58% of Kansas public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
218 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 117 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 127 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 145 | 28% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Wheatridge Middle School→Gardner Edgerton High
Based on grade levels within Gardner Edgerton. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
47.3%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
40.0%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.5% | 28.5% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.0%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wheatridge Middle School
Wheatridge Middle School's state test result (36.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheatridge Middle School this school | 517 | 42.2% | 36.8% |
| Shawnee Heights Middle Tecumseh | 540 | 42.6% | 34.9% |
| Seaman Middle School Topeka | 560 | 40.0% | 33.1% |
| Lansing Middle 6-8 Lansing | 580 | 35.9% | 39.6% |
| Trail Ridge Middle School Gardner | 679 | 44.0% | 34.2% |
| Lawrence West Middle School Lawrence | 648 | 36.7% | 37.9% |
Matched among Kansas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wheatridge Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.8% | #71 of 192 | #25 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #74 of 192 | #26 of 32 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #59 of 192 | #24 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 517 | #79 of 225 | #27 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #21 of 161 | #3 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.5% | #93 of 161 | #20 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.2% | #128 of 195 | #9 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #76 of 98 | #16 of 21 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
517
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
-37% since 2010-11, when it was 816
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 517 | 45 | 11.5:1 | 42% (218) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 43.4 | 12.1:1 | 44% (229) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 42.3 | 12.8:1 | 45% (241) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 43 | 12.3:1 | 36% (191) |
| 2017-18 | 543 | 40 | 13.6:1 | 38% (207) |
| 2015-16 | 524 | N/A | N/A | 41% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 816 | 53 | 15.4:1 | 45% (366) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wheatridge Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (543 to 517); teachers up 13% (40 to 45).
About Wheatridge Middle School
Wheatridge Middle School sits in Gardner, Kansas, and is classified as a middle school. The school enrolls 517 students in grades 5 through 8. On average, middle schools in Kansas enroll around 402, and this school is 29% above that mark.
Gardner Edgerton runs Wheatridge Middle School along with 10 other schools, enrolling 5,854 students in total.
More than half of the students at Wheatridge Middle School are White (73%). The remaining shares are 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wheatridge Middle School scores 44%.
The school has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.5 students per teacher. Middle schools in Kansas have an average ratio of 12.7:1. The school reported 42% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Johnson County average 27%.
On the allk12 Grade, Wheatridge Middle School lands at B, ahead of 58% of Kansas public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Wheatridge Middle School is -5.2 points: 36.8% actual, 42.0% predicted.
Johnson County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $109,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 58%, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. There are 168 public schools in the county, enrolling about 93,598, Wheatridge Middle School among them.
The closest school to Wheatridge Middle School is Gardner Elem, located about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wheatridge Middle School. Its average proficiency rate of 36.8% is below the 41.3% average for nearby schools.
Federal data place Wheatridge Middle School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 529 to 517.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Wheatridge Middle School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
620,631
Census ACS
Median income
$109,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
58%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
168
93,598 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gardner Edgerton
- Gardner Edgerton HighHigh · 1,794 students
- Trail Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Pioneer Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 548 students
- Madison ElementaryElementary · 521 students
- Grand Star ElementaryElementary · 380 students
- Nike ElementaryElementary · 365 students
Other schools in Gardner
- Gardner Edgerton HighHigh · 1,794 students
- Trail Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Pioneer Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 548 students
- Madison ElementaryElementary · 521 students
- Grand Star ElementaryElementary · 380 students
- Nike ElementaryElementary · 365 students
Nearby schools
- Gardner Elem0.1 mi · 304
- Grand Star Elementary0.6 mi · 380
- Trail Ridge Middle School0.6 mi · 679
- Sunflower Elementary0.7 mi · 293
- Gardner Edgerton High0.9 mi · 1,794
- Moonlight Elementary School1.0 mi · 320
Frequently asked questions
About Wheatridge Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wheatridge Middle School?
Wheatridge Middle School enrolls approximately 517 students in grades 05-08.
Is Wheatridge Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wheatridge Middle School is a middle school covering grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at Wheatridge Middle School?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at Wheatridge Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Wheatridge Middle School?
Student demographics at Wheatridge Middle School are roughly 73% White, 12% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Wheatridge Middle School public or private?
Wheatridge Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Gardner Edgerton.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.