Northwestern Senior High School

As an intimate high school in Kokomo, Indiana, Northwestern Senior High School hosts 541 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Northwestern School Corp. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 816.

Within Northwestern School Corp, which oversees 4 schools and 1,847 students, Northwestern Senior High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Northwestern Senior High School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Northwestern Senior High School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Howard County's rate of about 49%.

Across the wider county, Howard County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,027 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Howard County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,786 students), of which Northwestern Senior High School is one.

Northwestern Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025.

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