Erie High School

Erie High School is one of the minimally staffed four-year high schools in Erie, Kansas, operated by Erie-Galesburg, with 144 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 65% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Erie-Galesburg runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 438 students. Erie High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Erie High School logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder is composed of 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Neosho County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Erie High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.3%; this one comes in at 16.9%, -23.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Neosho County shows median household earnings sit near $56,618, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Neosho County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,406 students), Erie High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Erie Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Erie High School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Erie High School has ticked down 23%, going from 187 students in 2018 to 144 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 3% to 8%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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