Wawasee High School

Wawasee High School is an average-sized senior high in Syracuse, Indiana, operated by Wawasee Community School Corp. The school enrolls 836 students in grades 9 through 12.

Wawasee Community School Corp runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,638 students. Wawasee High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wawasee High School shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Kosciusko County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.6:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kosciusko County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, Kosciusko County reports that median household income runs about $75,317, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Wawasee High School is one of 20 public schools in Kosciusko County (combined enrollment of about 11,029 students).

Syracuse Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 910 students in 2018 compared to 836 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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