Winfield Middle School

Located at 130 Viking Blvd., in Winfield, Kansas, Winfield Middle School is a moderately sized middle school that hosts 456 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Winfield.

Within Winfield, which oversees 6 schools and 1,915 students, Winfield Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Winfield Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Cowley County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Winfield Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 22.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cowley County) reports that median household earnings sit near $57,878, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Cowley County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,714 students), of which Winfield Middle School is one.

Winfield High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Winfield Middle School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Winfield Middle School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 499 (now 456).

On the community side, members of the Winfield Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.