Summary
Stucky Middle School in Wichita, Kansas, serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 518 students, the smallest enrollment among 10 nearby middle schools. Chronic absenteeism remains high: 38% of students were chronically absent in 2025–26, compared with 30% in the Wichita district and 18% statewide, though Stucky’s rate has fallen from 48% in 2022–23. The clearest academic concern is mathematics: just 13% of students were proficient, 28 percentage points below the state rate.
Science is Stucky’s strongest subject relative to its district, while math is its weakest across comparisons. In 2025–26, proficiency was 22% in science, 27% in English language arts (ELA) and 13% in math. Stucky’s science result was just above the district’s 21% rate, but below the state’s 38% and nearby schools’ 24% average. ELA was below the district by 3 points and the nearby-school average by 1 point; it was 19 points below the state. Math was 8 points below the district and nearby-school average, and 28 below the state. Sixth-grade ELA stands out as a particular weakness: 17% were proficient, compared with about 30% in grades 7 and 8. In the nearby group, Stucky ranked third-lowest in math, but was not at the bottom in any subject.
ELA and science have improved over the four years shown, but math has slipped overall: ELA rose 11 percentage points and science 11, while math fell 2. Despite those gains, the state gap widened by 2 points in ELA and 11 in math; science’s gap narrowed by 4. SchoolDigger places Stucky at the 7th percentile statewide, with 0 stars; it was tied with one nearby school, with four nearby schools below and five above. Its student–teacher ratio is relatively low at 12.6, and its free/reduced-price lunch rate was 73%, below the nearby-school average of 82%; these figures describe context, not causes of results. SchoolDigger’s group rankings show a striking contrast: in 2024–25, Stucky ranked at the 88th percentile for how well it serves English language learner students, compared with the school’s overall 7th percentile. Its Hispanic-student ranking fell from the 56th percentile in 2023–24 to the 10th in 2025–26, drawing close to its overall 7th-percentile standing.
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