Crest High

Crest High operates as an one-room-style four-year high school in Colony, Kansas, one of the schools within Crest. Current enrollment sits at 78 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 410 students each, so Crest High sits 81% smaller than that benchmark.

Crest High is one of 2 schools operated by Crest, a district that caters to 263 students overall.

Demographically, Crest High lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Anderson County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at Crest High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Anderson County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crest High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.1%; this one delivers 27.2%.

Across the wider county, Anderson County reports that median household income runs about $70,614, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Crest High is one of 6 public schools in Anderson County (combined enrollment of about 1,188 students).

Crest Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Crest High comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 32.1%.

Crest High operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 22%: 64 students in 2018 compared to 78 in 2025.

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