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What's one thing Basehor-Linwood High School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
882
High
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 410
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BASEHOR-LINWOOD·NCES 200378001186
Basehor-Linwood High School
2108 North 155 Street, Basehor, KS 66007 · (913) 724-2266 · Leavenworth County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL882 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of Kansas public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Kansas public high schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 11.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
174 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 51%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 204 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 235 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 222 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 221 | 25% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 58% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Basehor-Linwood. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingEnglish Language Arts
50.6%
KS avg 44.5%
Math
51.5%
KS avg 38.8%
What this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39.
KAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.6% | 51.5% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 39.5% |
% Meeting + Exceeding, all students and all tested grades. Kansas set new KAP cut scores in spring 2025, so results from 2023-24 and earlier are not comparable with later years.
Source: KAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.8%
based on KS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Basehor-Linwood High School
Basehor-Linwood High School's state test result (38.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basehor-Linwood High School this school | 882 | 19.7% | 38.0% |
| De Soto High School De Soto | 918 | 21.6% | 43.2% |
| Eisenhower High School Goddard | 991 | 23.1% | 34.2% |
| Spring Hill High School Spring Hill | 1,121 | 17.4% | 44.0% |
| Rose Hill High Rose Hill | 608 | 22.0% | 23.1% |
| Louisburg High Louisburg | 529 | 14.7% | 49.7% |
Matched among Kansas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Basehor-Linwood High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #48 of 262 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.5% | #33 of 262 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #46 of 262 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 882 | #64 of 332 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #102 of 172 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.9% | #100 of 172 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.7% | #251 of 263 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.3% | #51 of 75 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
882
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
+147% since 1990-91, when it was 357
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 17.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 882 | 62.9 | 14.0:1 | 20% (174) |
| 2023-24 | 915 | 56.3 | 16.3:1 | 17% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 857 | 54.2 | 15.8:1 | 14% (119) |
| 2020-21 | 897 | 50 | 17.9:1 | 10% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 838 | 43.8 | 19.1:1 | 15% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 673 | 43 | 15.7:1 | 19% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 797 | 31 | 25.7:1 | 9% (70) |
| 2000-01 | 706 | 29 | 24.3:1 | 2% (17) |
| 1990-91 | 357 | 27 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Basehor-Linwood High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (838 to 882); teachers up 43% (43.8 to 62.9).
About Basehor-Linwood High School
At 2108 North 155 Street in Basehor, Kansas, Basehor-Linwood High School operates as a large high school. It teaches 882 students in grades 9 through 12. It has 115% more students than the average for high schools in Kansas (about 410).
Basehor-Linwood High School reports to Basehor-Linwood, which has 7 schools and 3,092 students.
White students are 82% of those enrolled at Basehor-Linwood High School. The rest of enrollment is 11% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. That is in line with Leavenworth County, where about 80% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 31%.
A staff of 62.9 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 14.0:1. The average for high schools in Kansas, 11.9:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 20%. The average for public schools in Leavenworth County is 34%.
On the allk12 Grade, Basehor-Linwood High School lands at B, ahead of 62% of Kansas public high schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Basehor-Linwood High School is 14.7 points below its prediction. Actual: 38.0%. Predicted: 52.8%.
In Leavenworth County, home to about 83,123 people, median household income comes to about $89,218, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 30 public schools in the county, enrolling about 13,185, Basehor-Linwood High School among them.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Basehor-Linwood Virtual School, is the closest to Basehor-Linwood High School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Basehor-Linwood High School ranks 5th on proficiency.
NCES assigns Basehor-Linwood High School the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 897 in 2020-21, 882 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 17.9:1 to 14.0:1.
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Leavenworth County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
83,123
Census ACS
Median income
$89,218
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
30
13,185 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Basehor-Linwood
- Basehor-Linwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Basehor Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
- Gray Hawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Basehor-Linwood Virtual SchoolCombined · 170 students
Other schools in Basehor
- Basehor-Linwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Basehor Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 320 students
- Gray Hawk Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Basehor-Linwood Virtual SchoolCombined · 170 students
Nearby schools
- Basehor-Linwood Virtual School0.0 mi · 170
- Gray Hawk Elementary School0.8 mi · 285
- Basehor Elementary School0.9 mi · 508
- Glenwood Ridge Elementary School2.6 mi · 320
- Basehor-Linwood Middle School2.7 mi · 679
- Piper High3.3 mi · 913
Frequently asked questions
About Basehor-Linwood High SchoolHow many students attend Basehor-Linwood High School?
Basehor-Linwood High School enrolls approximately 882 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Basehor-Linwood High School serve?
Basehor-Linwood High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Basehor-Linwood High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Basehor-Linwood High School is approximately 14.0:1 (63 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Basehor-Linwood High School?
At Basehor-Linwood High School, the student body is approximately 82% White, 11% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Basehor-Linwood High School public or private?
Basehor-Linwood High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Basehor-Linwood.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.