Burlingame Junior/Senior High

Located at 417 North Dacotah, in Burlingame, Kansas, Burlingame Junior/Senior High is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus that enrolls 151 students (grades 6 through 12), run under Burlingame Public School. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Burlingame Junior/Senior High sits 63% smaller than that benchmark.

Burlingame Junior/Senior High is one of 2 schools operated by Burlingame Public School, a district that instructs 293 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Burlingame Junior/Senior High shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest reads as 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Burlingame Junior/Senior High has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Burlingame Junior/Senior High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 41.0%; this one comes in at 25.8%, -15.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Osage County shows median household income runs about $74,467, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Burlingame Junior/Senior High is one of 13 public schools in Osage County (combined enrollment of about 2,587 students).

Burlingame Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Burlingame Junior/Senior High at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 35.5%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burlingame Junior/Senior High has stayed largely flat, going from 150 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 98% to 90% across the same window.

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