WALDEN MIDDLE

As a well-populated middle-grades school in KANSAS CITY, Missouri, WALDEN MIDDLE enrolls 730 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within PARK HILL. Enrollment runs roughly 58% above the state mean of about 461.

Across the 18 schools in PARK HILL (11,937 students total), WALDEN MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, WALDEN MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Black, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WALDEN MIDDLE has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WALDEN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -4.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Platte County put median household earnings sit near $96,227, about 47% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Platte County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,612 students), WALDEN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHEAST ELEM., around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WALDEN MIDDLE comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for WALDEN MIDDLE typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.