Summary:
Lansing, Kansas has only one middle school serving grades 6-8, Lansing Middle 6-8. While the school has shown significant improvement in academic performance over the past year, its overall ranking has declined in recent years, dropping from 62nd in 2022-2023 to 109th out of 363 Kansas middle schools in 2024-2025. The school outperforms the state average in English Language Arts and Science proficiency, but its Mathematics proficiency, while still above the state average, is an area for improvement.
Lansing Middle 6-8 faces some demographic and socioeconomic challenges, with a relatively high free and reduced-price lunch rate of 36.82% and a chronic absenteeism rate of 19.5%, which is higher than the state's target of 15%. The school's student-teacher ratio of 13.7 is slightly lower than the state average, and its per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $6,685.
Overall, Lansing Middle 6-8 is a relatively strong-performing middle school, but it faces some challenges that may be impacting its overall ranking and performance. The school should continue to build on its academic strengths, particularly in English Language Arts and Science, while also addressing areas for improvement, such as Mathematics proficiency and chronic absenteeism.
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