Clay Center Community High

As a low-enrollment senior high in Clay Center, Kansas, Clay Center Community High teaches 326 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Clay County. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Clay Center Community High sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

Clay County runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,272 students. Clay Center Community High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clay Center Community High logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clay Center Community High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Clay County indicate median household income runs about $66,176, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Clay County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,272 students), of which Clay Center Community High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Clay Center Community Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Clay Center Community High. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clay Center Community High at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 307 students in 2018 compared to 326 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.