Clearwater High

Clearwater High is one of the mid-sized four-year high schools in Clearwater, Kansas, one of the schools within Clearwater, with 361 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Clearwater runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,095 students. Clearwater High is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Clearwater High shows that nearly all students (87%) are White. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Sedgwick County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Clearwater High shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages about 11.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 31% of students at Clearwater High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Sedgwick County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Clearwater High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.4%; this one comes in at 30.6%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Sedgwick County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,365 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sedgwick County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 84,569 students), Clearwater High is one campus in the mix.

Clearwater Intermediate - Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Clearwater High. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clearwater High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clearwater High has changed only slightly, going from 366 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 93% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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