Buhler High

Located at 611 N Main, in Buhler, Kansas, Buhler High is a substantial high school that teaches 674 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Buhler. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Buhler High sits 64% above that benchmark.

Within Buhler, which oversees 7 schools and 2,512 students, Buhler High is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Buhler High shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.9:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Reno County's rate of about 55%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Buhler High is in the bottom 10% of Kansas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.9%; Buhler High posts 29.4%, -16.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Reno County) records that the typical household earns roughly $60,645 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Reno County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,909 students), Buhler High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Buhler Grade School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Buhler High comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Buhler High's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 658 (now 674). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 3% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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