CENTER MIDDLE

CENTER MIDDLE is one of the average-sized 6-8 campuss in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, one of the schools within CENTER 58, with 493 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within CENTER 58, which oversees 7 schools and 2,339 students, CENTER MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CENTER MIDDLE lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder looks like 15% White, 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CENTER MIDDLE has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, CENTER MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 34.3%.

In the area at large, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,577 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CENTER MIDDLE is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).

INDIAN CREEK ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CENTER MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 53.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTER MIDDLE has declined 9%, going from 539 students in 2018 to 493 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 65% to 61% across the same window.

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