Elkhart High

Elkhart High operates as an one-room-style high school in Elkhart, Kansas, overseen by Elkhart. Current enrollment sits at 108 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 410.

Within Elkhart, which oversees 5 schools and 1,580 students, Elkhart High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Elkhart High shows that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 44% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Morton County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Elkhart High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.5%; actual is 13.0%, a gap of -23.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Morton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,447 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elkhart High is one of 7 public schools in Morton County (combined enrollment of about 1,688 students).

Kansas Connections Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elkhart High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.8%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elkhart High has ticked down 13%, going from 124 students in 2018 to 108 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 15% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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