Bucklin High

Bucklin High is one of the one-room-style 9-12 campuss in Bucklin, Kansas, one of the schools within Bucklin, with 57 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Bucklin High sits 86% below that benchmark.

Bucklin High is one of 2 schools operated by Bucklin, a district that hosts 195 students overall.

On demographics, Bucklin High lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 47% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Bucklin High tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ford County (around 80%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bucklin High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.1%; this one comes in at 21.1%, -26.0 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ford County put the typical household earns roughly $70,781 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Bucklin High is one of 15 public schools in Ford County (combined enrollment of about 7,836 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bucklin Elem, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, Bucklin High comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 65 students in 2018 compared to 57 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 6% to 0%. Class-load math has fell: from 7.9:1 in 2018 to 6.5:1 in 2025.

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