Bluestem Jr/Sr High

Bluestem Jr/Sr High is a four-year high school of intimate scale in Leon, Kansas, operated by Bluestem, works with 241 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Bluestem runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 508 students. Bluestem Jr/Sr High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Bluestem Jr/Sr High logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Bluestem Jr/Sr High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 48% of students at Bluestem Jr/Sr High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Butler County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bluestem Jr/Sr High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.7%.

In the broader community, Butler County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,610 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Bluestem Jr/Sr High is one of 42 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 18,052 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bluestem Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Bluestem Jr/Sr High comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 220 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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