Lakota Middle School

Lakota Middle School is a middle-grades school of intimate scale in Kansas, Ohio, run under Lakota Local, works with 288 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 482.

Across the 25 schools in Lakota Local (18,806 students total), Lakota Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lakota Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Sandusky County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Lakota Middle School records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 48% of students at Lakota Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lakota Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.6%; this one delivers 63.7%.

Around the school, census data for Sandusky County shows median household income runs about $62,295, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sandusky County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,558 students), of which Lakota Middle School is one.

Lakota Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lakota Middle School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 67.5%.

Lakota Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lakota Middle School's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 353 (now 288). White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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