HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Test scores
MO DVT (Growth) 2024-25 . Growth Percentile vs PeersWhat this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50 and 49. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Missouri 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 Missouri's top nor bottom 10%.
About HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls 590 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within HICKMAN MILLS C-1. That puts it 28% larger than the typical public school in Missouri, which averages around 461 students.
HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 11 schools operated by HICKMAN MILLS C-1, a district that educates 4,833 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder comes out to 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jackson County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.4%.
In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $68,577, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 244 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 105,714 students).
Nearest neighbor: HICKMAN MILLS 8TH GRADE CENTER, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.
HICKMAN MILLS MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an urban location.
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