Baxter Springs High

Set in Baxter Springs, Kansas, Baxter Springs High is a moderately sized 9-12 campus, overseen by Baxter Springs. It works with 361 students across grades 7 through 12.

Baxter Springs High is one of 4 schools operated by Baxter Springs, a district that hosts 865 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Baxter Springs High lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 10% Native American, 9% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 57% of students at Baxter Springs High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Baxter Springs High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Cherokee County indicate median household income runs about $57,668, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Cherokee County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,647 students), Baxter Springs High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: USD 508 eAcademy, around 0.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Baxter Springs High comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.2%.

Baxter Springs High operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Baxter Springs High has edged down 21%, going from 459 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 82% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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