Public school / Middle
Hays Middle School
Hays, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 200702001321
- District
- Hays
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hays Middle School is a public middle school in Hays, Kansas, run by Hays. It enrols 739 students — the 17188th largest of 1,365 public schools in Kansas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
739
Teachers
41.0
Students per teacher
18.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
44.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Hays
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Hays High959 students
- 2Hays Middle School739 students
- 3Roosevelt Elem385 students
- 4Kathryn O'Loughlin Mccarthy Elem384 students
- 5Woodrow Wilson Elem384 students
- 6Lincoln Elem376 students
- 7Hays Virtual School153 students
- Enrollment+130.9%
- Teachers+86.4%
- Students per teacher+31.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−8.0%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory