Clifton-Clyde Sr High

Clifton-Clyde Sr High is one of the minimally staffed four-year high schools in Clyde, Kansas, overseen by Clifton-Clyde, with 104 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 75% smaller than the state mean of about 410.

Clifton-Clyde runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 310 students. Clifton-Clyde Sr High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clifton-Clyde Sr High shows that nearly all students (99%) are White.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.9:1, putting Clifton-Clyde Sr High tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Cloud County's rate of about 58%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clifton-Clyde Sr High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 43.3%; actual is 26.6%, a gap of -16.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cloud County) shows that median household earnings sit near $58,770, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cloud County's 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,361 students), Clifton-Clyde Sr High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Clifton-Clyde Middle School, around 6.8 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Clifton-Clyde Sr High comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 108 students in 2018 compared to 104 in 2025.

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