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Enrollment
456
Middle
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 402
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WINFIELD·NCES 201305001826
Winfield Middle School
130 Viking Blvd., Winfield, KS 67156 · (620) 221-5130 · Cowley County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Kansas public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
12.5:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
273 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 6 | 148 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 163 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 145 | 32% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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
Winfield Middle School→Winfield High
Based on grade levels within Winfield. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
31.4%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
21.8%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 | 31.4% | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 22.3% | 15.7% |
% 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
22.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.5%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 Winfield Middle School
Winfield Middle School's state test result (22.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winfield Middle School this school | 456 | 59.9% | 22.9% |
| Royster Middle School Chanute | 389 | 58.9% | 30.3% |
| Wellington Middle School Wellington | 349 | 61.3% | 20.3% |
| Fort Scott Middle School Fort Scott | 372 | 58.3% | 31.9% |
| El Dorado Middle El Dorado | 370 | 66.5% | 21.2% |
| Ottawa Middle School Ottawa | 456 | 58.3% | 28.5% |
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 Winfield Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.9% | #152 of 192 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.8% | #156 of 192 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #140 of 192 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #94 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #57 of 161 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #90 of 161 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.9% | #70 of 195 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #60 of 98 |
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
456
-22 (-5%) vs 2020
+35% since 2010-11, when it was 338
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 456 | 36.4 | 12.5:1 | 60% (273) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 40.6 | 11.6:1 | 59% (281) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 41.4 | 12.1:1 | 54% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 478 | 37 | 12.9:1 | 49% (233) |
| 2017-18 | 499 | 38.5 | 13.0:1 | 58% (289) |
| 2015-16 | 506 | 37 | 13.7:1 | 56% (285) |
| 2010-11 | 338 | 31 | 10.9:1 | 53% (180) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Winfield Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (499 to 456); teachers down 6% (38.5 to 36.4).
About Winfield Middle School
Among the schools in Winfield, Kansas, is Winfield Middle School, a medium-sized middle school. The latest federal count shows 456 students in grades 6 through 8.
Winfield Middle School falls under Winfield, which has 6 schools enrolling 1,915 students.
White students are the majority at Winfield Middle School, with 72% of enrollment. Other groups make up 11% Hispanic and 10% multiracial. Cowley County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 46% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Winfield Middle School's 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.5:1. That is close to the 12.7:1 average for middle schools in Kansas. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 60%. For comparison, public schools in Cowley County average 59%.
allk12 grades Winfield Middle School a D. The grade compares the school only with Kansas public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Winfield Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Kansas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 22.9% and a predicted 33.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cowley County show that the median household income is $57,878, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Besides Winfield Middle School, Cowley County has 21 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Winfield High, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles are 5 other public schools. Winfield Middle School is 7th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Town: Distant, meaning it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 22 fewer students in 2024-25.
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Cowley County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
34,411
Census ACS
Median income
$57,878
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
5,714 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Winfield
- Winfield HighHigh · 638 students
- Whittier ElemElementary · 259 students
- Irving ElemElementary · 234 students
- Lowell ElemElementary · 214 students
- Country View ElemElementary · 114 students
Other schools in Winfield
- Winfield HighHigh · 638 students
- Whittier ElemElementary · 259 students
- Irving ElemElementary · 234 students
- Lowell ElemElementary · 214 students
- Country View ElemElementary · 114 students
Other Winfield Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Winfield Middle. Winfield Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Winfield Middle SchoolWinfield, WV · 552 students
- Winfield Middle SchoolWinfield, AL · 361 students
- WINFIELD MIDDLEWINFIELD, MO · 317 students
Nearby schools
- Winfield High0.1 mi · 638
- Whittier Elem1.0 mi · 259
- Irving Elem1.1 mi · 234
- Lowell Elem1.8 mi · 214
- Country View Elem4.9 mi · 114
- Oxford Elem11.0 mi · 201
Frequently asked questions
About Winfield Middle SchoolHow large is Winfield Middle School?
Winfield Middle School enrolls approximately 456 students in grades 06-08.
Is Winfield Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Winfield Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Winfield Middle School have?
Winfield Middle School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Winfield Middle School?
At Winfield Middle School, the student body is approximately 72% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Winfield Middle School public or private?
Winfield Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Winfield.
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