Public school / Middle
Independence Middle
Independence, Kansas
- NCES ID
- 200765001120
- District
- Independence
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Independence Middle is a public middle school in Independence, Kansas, run by Independence. It enrols 433 students — the 46270th 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
433
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
13.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
72.3%
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 Independence
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.
- 1Independence Sr High563 students
- 2Independence Middle433 students
- 3Eisenhower Elem391 students
- 4Jefferson School390 students
- 5Bridges Academy34 students
- Enrollment+35.3%
- Teachers+50.0%
- Students per teacher−4.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+48.2%
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